Abstract :
The sources of many of the new drugs and active ingredients of medicines are derived from natural products. The
starting point for plant-based new drug discovery should be identification of the right candidate plants by applying
traditional system of medicine. In many cases, the people claim the good remedy of such kind of plant -based
products or herbal products. Chromatographical methods of separations of bioactive principles from the plants
are the most commonly used technique for the identification, quantification and characterisation purpose. Herbal
medicinal plants are getting the paramount importance in the field of therapeutics, as most of the pharmaceutical
industries are depend in on plants or plant materials for the production of pharmaceutical compounds. Therefore, it
is of interest to investigate the antioxidant activity by DPPH-radical scavenging method in vitro. The results of the
present study indicate that the chloroform extract of C.cerasiformis possess the strong antioxidant activities.
Key words: Ctenolepsis cerasiformis, Antioxidants, Bioactive molecules, Free radicals, Pharmaceutical
compounds.
Keyword :
Ctenolepsis cerasiformis, Antioxidants, Bioactive molecules, Free radicals, Pharmaceutical compounds.