US EPA

8273764 

Journal Article 

Evaluation of phenol content from a medicinally important plant – Artocarpus heterophyllus 

Charudatta, TR; Deepak, RA; Ramchandra, DN 

2015 

Global Research Online 

33 

1 

37-39 

English 

The medicinal plants have been the object of research in both classical and advanced areas of plant sciences. Artocarpus heterophyllus from the family Moraceae is an important medicinal plant. Many parts of the plant including the bark, roots, leaves, and fruit are attributed with medicinal properties. This plant produces bulges on the bark when it is about to die. Stem bark bulges, in the form of extracts, are used as folk medicine to cure some diseases. Local people believe that these bulges are used as Sanjeevani. The present study was designed to investigate the phenol content of acetone extract along with sub fractions. The content of total phenolics in the acetone extract of bulges and its fractions were determined spectrometrically according to the Folin-Ciocalteu procedure and calculated as catechol equivalent. The results of the present study indicates that acetone extract and sub fractions showed presence of high amount of phenolic content from the bulges of the medicinally important plant- Artocarpus heterophyllus. Further, it also revealed that the content of total phenolics in the sub fractions was greater than the parent acetone extract. Further work is under way to confirm the anti- oxidative effect of these promising plant extracts by using other methods and to characterize the active phenolic anti-oxidants. © 2015, Global Research Online. All rights reserved. 

Artocarpus heterophyllus; Moraceae; Phenolic content