Study on Phytochemical Analysis of Begonia cordifolia

Abstract

The present work enumerates the preliminary phytochemical analysis, fluorescence analysis, physicochemical character and quantitative estimation of leaf extract of Begonia cordifolia, which belongs to Begoniaceae. The phytochemicals which are naturally present in the medicinal plants posses a very great amount of defense mechanism which in turn protects the mankind from various diseases. The leaf sample of B.cordifolia was extracted using different solvents such as Hexane, Ethyl acetate, Acetone, Methanol and Aqueous. The preliminary phytochemicals such as saponin, protein, phenol, steroid, catachin, triterpenoids, sugar and reducing sugar were predominantly present in sample. In fluorescence analysis, the leaf powder showed different colours in various extracts. The physico- chemical determinations of the methanol extract of Begonia cordifolia leaves showed the maximum extractive values and hexane extract showed the minimum value. The quantitative analysis of B. cordifolia leaves contained high quantity of phenols and flavonoids.