Hitesh Solanki, Rachana Suthar
The world is blessed with a
great variety of natural vegetation, some of which are used as traditional
medicine to cure various sicknesses and diseases. Phytochemicals are naturally
occuring, biologically active chemical compounds in plants. Phytochemicals like carotenoids, flavanoids
and polyphenols, they posses antioxidant activity and protect our cells against
oxidative damage and reduce the risk of developing certain types of cancer. The
majority of the active compounds are phenolic, vitamin C, vitamin E, tannins
and carotenes. Coastal medicinal plants
also engage in recreation to treat diabetes, particularly where most people
have limited resources and do not have access to modern treatment. Halophytes
are salt tolerant plant. Halophyte species which grow in a wide variety of
saline habitats, from coastal sand dunes, salt marshes and mudflat to inland deserts,
salt flats and steppes. Salt tolerance plants have more phytochemical and more
antioxidant effect indicated that lot of literature. So in this way in my
present study I have done phytochemical screening or preliminary phytochemical
screening of halophyte Suaeda nudiflora.
Suaeda
nudiflora, Halophytes, Phytoconstituents, Secondary metabolites
VOL.13, ISSUE No.4, December 2021