Screening for Phytochemical Constituents of Selected Medicinal Plants from Al Khums Region, Libya

Abstract

Salem Mohamed Edrah

The massive majority of conventionally charity medicinal plants have hitherto to be sufficiently assessed. This study search for to sights the traditional medicinal of selected plants (Coriandrum sativum, Ocimum basilicum L and Petroselinum sativum Hoffm) used by the Libyan for therapeutic efforts with the aim of identifying the prominent medicinal plants and their uses for phytochemical research. The extraction methods used to aim to imitative as carefully as potential the traditional methods to produce as carefully as conceivable the traditional ‘herbal’ drug consequently to reservation potential energetic constituents of the plant part. The selection of solvent system largely rest on the precise environment of the bioactive compound being embattled and this similarly affects the procedures of decontamination to be used.Quantitative percentage yield of phytochemical components of selected plants leaves were for ethanolic extracts of Coriandrum sativum contained highest percentage yield 95 %, while Petroselinum sativum Hoffm and Ocimum basilicum L contained 90 and 86 % respectively, and for aqueous extracts of Coriandrum sativum, Ocimum basilicum L and Petroselinum sativum Hoffm 91, 83and 86 correspondingly. Whereas the Quantitative estimation of percent crude chemical constituents in these plants evaluations for Petroselinum sativum Hoffm highest percentage of crude flavonoids 36%, though, Ocimum basilicum L the lowest yield of flavonoids 9% and for the Coriandrum sativum 12%. In addition, the highest yield of Petroselinum sativum Hoffm was found to contain highest yields of alkaloids that are 8 %, and for each, the lowest yield was found in both of Coriandrum sativum and Ocimum basilicum L otherplants4% for each. Saponins were as well attained from the yield noted were highest alternating from 24% in the Coriandrum sativum, 20 % in the Ocimum basilicum L and to the lowest 16 % in the Petroselinum sativum Hoffm.

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