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Phytochemical analysis on Caryota urens (fishtail palm) fruit from VIT university campus for pharmaceutical use | Abstract
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Phytochemical analysis on Caryota urens (fishtail palm) fruit from VIT university campus for pharmaceutical use

Author(s): Vaishnavi R and Suneetha V

Caryota urens is a species which is known as flowering plant. Caryota urens is belonging to the palm family mainly from Singapore, Eastern Burma and some other places in India also .It grows mainly in open fields of hot areas and some rainforest areas also. The Caryota urens are commonly called toddy palm and wine palm because it is used to prepare wine .And is also known as jaggery palm which is named because of the use of preparation of jaggery. The distribution of the main active principles in the ethyl acetate extracts of Caryota urens dry fruits were screened by using various different solvents system. The phytochemical property of Caryota urens species shows the presence of carbohydrate, alkaloids, flavanoids and phenols, organic and inorganic nature. The main scope is to study the qualitative analysis of Caryota urens dry fruits for pharmacological benefits.