Identification of Antioxidant Potential of Gmelina asiatica

S. Girija¹* and R. Ravindhran²

¹Department of Medicinal Botany, Goverment Siddha Medical College, Chennai India.

²Department of Plant Biotechnology, Loyola College, Chennai India.

ABSTRACT: Gmelina is a large straggling or scrambling deciduous bush or shrub, rather hardy, to about 3 m tall, sometimes prostrate, usually spiny, sometimes unarmed, much-branched, very variable in size and habit; bark yellowish or brownish-white, thin, smooth; wood hard, grey; branchlets horizontal, rigid, often compressed. Significant antioxidant activity were observed by Gmelina asiatica, provide a scientific validation for the traditional use of these plants. The leaf and root posses higher range of radical scavenging activity than the stem. Potential sources of antioxidants have been found in leaves, stem and roots of G. asiatica plant.

KEYWORDS: Gmelina asiatica; flavonoids; saponins; tannins; glycosides; Alkaloids

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