Bioactivity Evaluation of Leucas zeylanica and its Phytochemicals
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Leucas zeylanica, phytochemicals, antioxidant, anthelminticAbstract
Leucas zeylanica belongs to the Lamiaceae family has high medicinal value. The phytochemicals screening results showed that terpenoids, flavonoids, tannins, saponins, phenols and alkaloids are present in aerial part of L. zeylanica.Vacuum liquid chromatography (VLC) and column chromatography (CC) techniques were used in fractionation and purification of the crude extracts. The structure of isolated compound was elucidated by Infrared (IR) and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (1H, 13C NMR) spectroscopies. A compound was successfully isolated from the chloroform extract and identified as vanillin. Hexane crude extract contained abundance of terpenoids while methanol crude extract was abundance in phenols, tannins and flavonoids. The antioxidant activity of the crude extracts was tested by using 2,2-diphenyl-1picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) scavenging assay. Methanol extract was found to be most active with IC50of 145.9 µg/mL. This is in accordance to the results showing that methanol extract showed the highest total phenolic content and total flavonoid content which were 133.0 mg GAE/g and 238.0 mg QE/g, respectively. The anthelmintic activity of the crude extracts was also tested by using adult earthworms Lumbricus rubellusand it was found that the activity is dose dependent for methanol and chloroform extracts. The result showed that methanol extract at concentration of 50 mg/mL exhibited better activity than all other extracts but not comparable than the reference drug Albendazole.
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