African Journal of
Pharmacy and Pharmacology

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Pharm. Pharmacol.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1996-0816
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJPP
  • Start Year: 2007
  • Published Articles: 2277

Full Length Research Paper

Phytochemicals screening and antimicrobial activities of selected medicinal plants of Khyberpakhtunkhwa Pakistan

Iqbal Hussain1*, Moneeb Ur Rehman Khattak1, Riaz ullah1,3, Zia Muhammad1, Naeem Khan1, Farhat Ali Khan2, Zahoor Ullah3 and Sajjad Haider3
1Department of Chemistry, Kohat University of Science and Technology Kohat-26000,Pakistan. 2Department of Pharmacy Sarhad University of Science and Information Technology Peshawar-25000, Pakistan. 3Department of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, King Saud University, P. O. BOX 800, Riyadh 11421, Saudi Aarbia.
Email: [email protected]

  •  Accepted: 24 May 2011
  •  Published: 30 June 2011

Abstract

The study was carried out to assess the phytochemical and antimicrobial bioassay of five medicinal plants, Lepidium sativum, Nerium oleander, Ranunculus repens,Tecoma stans and Urtica dioca. These plants are traditionally used as medicine in the Northwest Pakistan, therefore it is necessary to identify and  estimate their alkaloid, flavonoid, saponin, phenol and tannin contents. Phytochemical inveigation of plant samples determines that alkaloid (63.6%) and flavonoid (0.91%) were highest in N. oleander, saponin (11%) and phenol (0.031) in T. stans, tannin (0.61%) in L. sativum, All five species showed no significant antimicrobial activities.

 

Key words: Medicinal plants, phytochemical analysis, antimicrobial activities.

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