A Quantitative Study on Phytochemical and Reduction Potential of Methanolic Extract of Flower of Pergulariadaemia (Forsk) Chiov.

Pergulariadaemia of the Asclepiadaceae family is a hispid perennial twinning herb distributed in the roadsides of tropical and subtropical regions.It has wide use in the ethno medicine. It was established that traditionally whole plant possess pharmacological activity with potential medicinal significance as an antifungal, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, fertility, hepatoprotective and anticancer agent. In the present study a quantitative estimation of phytochemicals like phenols, tannins and flavonoids were determined in Pergulariadaemia flowers and antioxidant capacitywas also determined. The results confirms that the flower of Pergulariadaemiahave significant phytocompounds and antioxidant capacity was significant in methanolic extract at 80 µg which highlights its reducing ability by donationg electrons and hydrogens for termination of radical chain reaction.