Phytochemical screening of Enicostemma littorale plant from Washim district of Maharashtra state

The phytochemical screening of plants plays a commercial role and has great interest in pharmaceutical companies for the manufacture of the new drugs to treat various diseases. The present research work is conducted to search the qualitative analysis of the plant material of Enicostemma littorale. Qualitative phytochemical evaluation was carried out to test the presence of alkaloids, Terpenoids, flavonoids, carbohydrates, tannin, saponin, amino acid, glycoside and phenol in the methanol, petroleum ether and acetone extracts of plant material using Soxhlet extraction methods. The present effort is targeted at the evaluation of the phytochemicals present in the plant species.