Antimicrobial, Antioxidant Activity and Phytochemical Screening of Acalypha indica Crude Leaf Extract

Abstract

Medicinal plants represent a great deal of untapped reservoir of drugs. The structural diversity of their component molecules makes a valuable source of lead compounds. Plants have been the major original source of many drugs used in the treatment of diseases today. Our present study was carried out on analysis of antimicrobial, antioxidant properties and phytochemical compounds from methanolic extract of Acalypha indica an Indian plant known to possess different medicinal properties. The plant extracts were subjected to priliminary phytochemical screening for the presence of alkaloids, carbohydrates, glycosides, tannins, phenolic compounds, proteins, free amino acids, saponins, phytosterols, flavonoids, fixed oils and fats a total of 4 microorganisms used to assess the antimicrobial activities, it includes, two gram positive bacteria i.e. Staphylococcus aurous and Bacillus subtilis; two grams negative Bacteria: Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhicollected from department of Microbiology, Osmania University, Hyderabad. by agarwell diffusion method.Anti-oxidant activity of plant extract was performed by DPPH, FRAP, TBA and TCA method showed good results.