European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

PHYTOCHEMICAL AND PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF HIBISCUS ROSA SINENSIS LEAVES EXTRACT: A COMPARISON BETWEEN CONVENTIONAL AND MICROWAVE ASSISTED EXTRACTION

Samreen Fatema, Ola Basa’ar, Mazahar Farooqui and Pathan Mohd Arif*

ABSTRACT

The extraction of the herbal drugs are need to be analysed to give the documentary prove of the herbal drugs against many diseases. Hibiscus rosa sinensis is one of the famous herbal medicine used for the treatment of bleeding soother irrited tissue and relxes spams. Various extract of Hibiscus rosa sinensis is also used for the hair growth. Hibiscus rosa sinensis belongs to the Malvaceae family. In the present research work the comparersion of conventional extraction (CE) and microwave assisted extraction (MAE) was done. It is observed that both are hydro extract but gives different results for phytochemicals and physicochemical properties. Carbohydrate, glycosides proteins, amino acid, phenolic compounds and tannins were present in both the extracts. The CE is found to be active against E.coli, B.Subtilis, S.Aureus bacteria while MAE is found to be inactive.

Keywords: Phytochemical, physicochemical, microwave extract, aqueous extract, antibacterial, ant-tuberculosis, anti-malarial.