Microscopical, Phytochemical Screening and Pharmacological Aspects of Erythrina variegata Seeds

The plant Erythrina variegata is traditional medicinal plant. Different parts of Erythrina variegata have used in traditional medicine as nervine sedative, febrifuge, anti-asthmatic and anti-epileptic. In some experiments it has potential effects for treatment of some disease like convulsion, fever, inflammation, bacterial infection, insomnia, helminthiasis, cough and wounds. The dried powdered seeds were treated with different solutions and observed calcium oxalate crystals, starch grains and trichome. The seeds were extract with two solvents such as ethanol and chloroform. Phytochemical screening studies were performed in ethanol extract and chloroform extract and detect various constituents such as alkaloids, tannins, flavonoids, steroids and triterpenoids.