European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

THE COMPARATIVE PHYTOCHEMICAL SCREENING BETWEEN DATURA STRAMONIUM LINN. AND LANTANA CAMARA LINN.

Pandey Rashmi, *Dr. Shashank Bhatt and Dhyani Suresh

ABSTRACT

Phytochemical screening is valuable for the development of new drugs by which different diseases can be treated. The Datura stramonium and Lantana camara are the most useful plants because their parts are a good source of secondary metabolites. The seeds of Datura stramonium and leaves of L. camara were used for phytochemical screening and hexane, chloroform, methanol and distilled water were used for the extraction of secondary metabolites by cold percolation method. The seeds of D. stramonium have alkaloids, glycosides, sterols and tannins while leaves of L. camara have alkaloids, flavonoids, glycosides, phenol, lignins, saponins, sterols and tannins. Generally, both plants have shown different pharmacological activities against albino rats and also used indetermination of larvicidal activity of mosquitoes.

Keywords: Secondary Metabolites, Datura stramonium Linn. and Lantana camara Linn.