ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Preliminary Phytochemical Screening of Different Solvent Mediated Medicinal Plant Sida sivarajani (Malvaceae) Extracts Evaluated

Medicinal plants have bioactive compounds which are used to cure various diseases.In the present investigation involves the preliminary phytochemical analysis to find out the various chemical constituents from the plant sample of Sida sivarajani. Four different solvents viz. Acetone, water, n-hexane and methanolwere used to obtain extracts from plantleaves. The extracts were subjected to preliminary phytochemical screening using standard procedure. The phytochemical screening reveals the presences of carbohydrates, cardic glycosides; phenol & terpenoids are present in all four solvents. Among all the four extracts, maximum phytochemicals were found dissolved in water, n-hexane and methanol.