15. Ethnobotanical and Phytochemical Study of Medicinal Plants Found in and around Malliputhur

Medicinal plants have bioactive compounds which are used for curing of various humandiseases and also play an important role in healing.Themedicinalplantshaveantifungal,antibacterial and anti-inflammation activities. In this study we have to take survey of 75 medicinal plants and their phytochemical constituents in an around Malliputhur. Most of the plants have alkaloids, terpenoids, various aminoacids, flavonoids, tanins and saponns. Among the 75 medicinal plants we have to take only three important medicinal plants naming Piper betle L. (Vetrillai), Abutilon indicum L. (Thuti), MorindatinctoriaRoxb. (Manjanathi) are used for the variety of plant growth. Phytochemicalshavetwocategoriesi.e.,primaryandsecondaryconstituents.Primary constituents have chlorophyll, proteins sugar and amino acids. Secondary constituentscontain terpenoids and alkaloids. Preliminary screening of phytochemicals in different solvent(hexane,ethanol, and chloroform ) of plantextracts i.e., Piper betle, Abutilon indicum, Morindatinctoriawerecarriedoutbyemployingstandardmethods for conducting Qualitative phytochemical analysis for studying the presence of activecompounds likesteroids, reducing sugar, sugar, alkaloids, phenolic compounds, flavonoids,tannins, saponins and amino acids. The test plant extracts, few phytochemicl constituents werepresentinallthesolvents.