European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

SCAVENGING ACTIVITY OF METHANOLIC EXTRACT OF FLOWERS OF JASMINUM MULTIFLORUM LINN

Vijaya Lakshmi Nandikatti*, Naga Vaishnavi M., Ravali K. and Keziya P.

ABSTRACT

Jasminum multiflorum Linn is an ornamental flowering shrub, used as a traditional medicine. Mostly leaves, roots, flowers and fruits are used to maintain health and also treat fever, cough, indolent ulcer, and abdominal distention, diarrhea, lowering the blood glucose level, regulating menstrual flow, to clean kidney waste, urinary inflammation, other infections and blood shot eyes. The flowers of Jasminum multiflorum Linn are having different therapeutic activities like Vasodilatation, Cardiotropic, Analgesic, Suppression of Lactation and Anti-oxidant. It is also noticed that there was a report on Anti-bacterial activity of flower. So, present paper is aimed to carry out to test the Antioxidant property of methanolic extract of flower of Jasminum multiflorum Linn. The Methanolic extract was tested for its antioxidant activity by using Hydrogen peroxide scavenging (H2O2) Assay method. It shown good anti oxidant activity when compare with the standard Ascorbic acid.

Keywords: Hydrogenperoxide, Anti oxidant, Jasminum multiflorum, Methanolic extract.