Comparative Studies on Antioxidant Properties of Cissus quadrangularis Solvent Extracts

Cissus quadrangularis L. is one of the important medicinal plants, belonging to the family Vitaceae and common name is ‘Hadjod’. It is a succulent plant found in warm tropical areas. The plant is well known in Ayurveda for its bone fracture healing properties. In the present study the antioxidant property of different plant samples eluted with solvents like methanol, ethanol and petroleum ether were checked by different assays like total antioxidant capacity, FRAP and ABTS assay. The samples showed increase in antioxidant property with the increase in the concentration indicating that they have increased antioxidant property. The stem and leaves sample extracted with all the three solvents like methanol, ethanol and petroleum ether showed higher antioxidant property than the fruit and root samples when analysed by FRAP assay. The fruit extract from all the three solvent showed higher total antioxidant capacity and leaf extract showed the least antioxidant capacity. ABTS assay was carried out for all the samples and the root extract from different solvents showed a better capacity of antioxidants when compared to other samples like stem, leaf and fruit. The antioxidant property of the fruit sample was found to be minimum when checked with all the three assays.

Author(s): Prabhavathi RM, Prasad MP and Jayaramu M*

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