Phytochemical Screening and Fingerprinting of Basella alba L. leaf extract

There are various medicinal plants present in this world. India is one of the most important countries in means of medicinal plants, as traditional medicines were one of the chief practices started by Indians. Plants show medicinal property due to numerous biologically active compounds such as carbohydrates, proteins, enzymes, fats and oils, minerals, vitamins, alkaloids, quinones, terpenoids, flavonoids, carotenoids, sterols, simple phenolic glycosides, tannins, saponins, polyphenols etc [9,10,15]. In present study, the attempt of screening phytochemicals from the leaves of the Basella alba and also it's fingerprinting by using chromatography technique were carried out. The phytochemical screening of B.alba revealed the presence of alkaloids, phenols, saponin glycosides and tannins. The methanolic leaves extract was subjected to HPTLC, the extract showed five bands. The band with Rf value 0.13 is lutein, 0.44 is rutin and 0.25 is quercetin which was accordance with the standard, which have been observed in both 254nm and 366 nm.