PHYTOCHEMICAL SCREENING OF BRICKELLIA CALIFORNICA PLANT FROM WASHIM DISTRICT OF MAHARASHTRA STATE

The phytochemical screening of plants plays a significant role commercially and has great interest in pharmaceutical companies for the manufacture of the new drugs to treat a variety of disorders. The present research work was conducted in order to search the qualitative analysis of the plant material of Brickellia californica. Qualitative phytochemical evaluation was carried out to test the presence of alkaloids, Terpenoids flavonoids, carbohydrate, tannin, saponin, amino acid, glycoside and phenol in the methanol, petroleum ether and acetone extracts of plant materials using soxhlet extraction methods. The present effort is targeted on the evaluation of the phytochemicals present in the plant species.

Keyword: Brickellia californica, Soxhlet apparatus, test tubes, methanol, petroleum ether and acetone, phytochemical etc.