Profiles of Secondary Metabolites and Antioxidants Activities in Abutilon indicum. Linn (Malvaceae)

Medicinal plants are the nature gift to human beings to make disease free healthy life. It plays a vital role to preserve our health. Abutilon indicum. Linn (Malvaceae) is a shrub distributed throughout India. The various parts of the plant. (Leaves, roots, seeds, and seed oil) are widely used by various tribal communities and forest dwellers for the treatment of a variety of ailments. It has been reported that Abutilon indicum has Anti-inflammatory and Anti-proliferative activity, Anti-Arthritic activity, Antioxidant and Antimicrobial activity, The plant is documented to possess beneficial effects as sweet, cooling, digestive, laxative, expectorant, diuretic, astringent, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, anthelmintic, demulcent and aphrodisiac. The plant contains saponins, flavonoids, alkaloids, hexoses, n-alkane mixtures alkanols, and amino acids as main classes of compounds. Demulcents of leaves are locally applied to boils and ulcers Scrutiny of the literature revealed some notable pharmacological activities like antibacterial, antipyretic, antimalarial, antifertility, hepatoprotective, hypoglycemic and wound healing properties, thus, the study reveals that the plant can act as a source of many bio-active compounds acting against some human diseases. The methanol extract was able to give the highest phenolic and flavonoid contents and was found to contain bioactive metabolites, including flavonoid, alkaloid, phenolic and fatty acid derivatives. Abutilon indicum has phytochemical compounds, as well as the antioxidant activity so that it has a high potential to be used in phytomedicine.