Open AccessPHYTOCHEMICAL AND PRELIMINARY TOXICITY STUDY OF SESBANIA GRANDIFLORA (LINN.) FLOWERS
Author(s) -
Arunabha Mallik,
Shraddha Nayak
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
international journal of biomedical and advance research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2455-0558
pISSN - 2229-3809
DOI - 10.7439/ijbar.v2i11.200
Subject(s) - phytochemical , traditional medicine , biology , sesbania , botany , medicine
Sesbania grandiflora Linn. (Family : Fabaceae) is widespread distributed West Bengal, Assam, Karnataka and North-Eastern. The present study intended with various phytochemical screening and toxicity studies were carried out on the flowers of Sesbania grandiflora. Preliminary phytochemical evalution of the methanolic and aqueous extracts of revealed that presence of corbohydrate, proteins, amino acids, saponins, flavonoids, alkaloids, tannins and glycosides.The acute toxicity study were performed to determined LD50  of 99% methanolic extract 20-40 mg/kg, 70% methanolic extract100-200 mg/kg and aqueous extract250-500 mg/kg.