2025, Vol. 13, Issue 2, Part C

author(s)
Abhijeet R Kasarkar, Shweta V Jadhav and Shrihari G Kulkarni

abstract
The phytochemicals present in plants act as potential source of useful drugs to improve the health status of humans. Phytochemicals analysis is the first step towards discovery of useful drugs. Plants are the richest resources of drugs and useful for the various biological activity. The present investigation includes the phytochemical screening of Andrographis paniculata (Burm.f.) Wall. was one of the highly used medicinal plants. Phytochemical tests were carried out specially for screening secondary metabolites of this plants. In our study we have investigated different phytochemicals from leaf of this plant by using different solvents for extraction. The plant shows the phytochemicals like saponins, tannins, terpenoid and steroids.