• Preliminary Phytochemical Screening of Leaves of Cassia Glauca Lam

Abstract

The Cassia is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, subfamily Caesalpiniaceae which is often treated as a sub-family Caesalpinioideae, of the large family Leguminosae. It comprises of about 350 species of herbs, shrubs and trees, which are widely distributed throughout the world, of which only twenty species are indigenous to India. Cassia species have been of keen interest in phytochemical and pharmacological research. Many of Cassia species possesses a good amount of medicinal properties like purgative, wound healing, hepatoprotective, anti-inflammatory and anti-diabetic. Different classes of natural products possessing potent physiological and pharmacological activities have been isolated from Cassia species. The present study is aimed at development of phytochemical parameters and to investigate the active principles present in Cassia glauca Lam. with elaborating the phytochemical properties which have been carried out on the leaf extract using petroleum ether, chloroform, methanol and acetone. The TLC profiling was fallowed for determination of Rf values of extracts in different solvent system.