Phytochemical Analysis of Mangrove Leaves (Rhizophora sp.)

Abstract

Mangrove plants have been reported as resources of many traditional folk of medicine and contain several kinds of trace elements which are being used to treat diseases. The aim of this study was to analyzed the phytochemical compounds of mangrove leaves. Our previous studies showed that the extract of mangrove leaves tend to be polar. The acetone and methanol extract of the mangrove leaves had high anti termite and antifungal activity. Based on this information, phytochemical content of mangrove leaves have been analyzed to find out the chemical substances that responsible for the bioactivity properties. Folin-Ciocalteu method was used to quantify the total phenolic content using a calibration curve of gallic acid, while for phytochemical were analyzed using spectrofotometric method. The results showed that the acetone extract of mangrove leaves containing alkaloid, polyphenolic, flavonoid, and total tannin higher than the methanol extract. This data will be further analyzed to obtain the compounds that may responsible for the biological performance of mangrove leaves.

Profiling of Antibacterial Compounds from Selective Medicinal Mangrove Species

“…Flavonoids are now considered an indispensable component in a variety of nutraceutical, pharmaceutical, medicinal and cosmetic applications. This is attributed to their anti-oxidative, anti-inflammatory, anti-mutagenic and anti-carcinogenic properties coupled with their capacity to modulate key cellular enzyme function [9]. Alkaloids have been reported as powerful poison, and many alkaloids derived from medicinal plants show biological activities such as anti-inflammatory, antimalarial, antimicrobial, cytotoxicity, antispasmodic and pharmacological effects.…”

“…A preliminary qualitative screening of bioactive compounds from plants under study was followed by their quantitative estimation. The procedures described by Syahidah and N Subekti (2019) [9] were adopted for the study with some modifications.…”

In Vitro Antimalarial and Toxicological Activities of Quercus infectoria (Olivier) Gall Extracts

“…This is in agreement with the study by Bagavan et al ( 35 ) in which both acetone and methanol extracts of Phyllanthus acidus leaves exhibited a promising antimalarial activity in vitro against the 3D7 strain of P. falciparum . This could be explained by the high content of phenolic compounds possessing antimalarial activity associated with these extracts ( 36 , 37 ). In another study, phenolic compound-rich acetone and methanol extracts of Q. infectoria galls also showed a promising antibacterial activity compared to other extracts ( 38 ), suggesting that the high content of phenolic compounds in Q. infectoria galls are attributable to the antibacterial or antimalarial activity ( 39 ) despite the presence of variations in terms of the phenolic composition in the extracts.…”

Anti-Inflammatory Activity and Phytochemical Profile from the Leaves of the Mangrove Sonneratia caseolaris (L.) Engl. for Future Drug Discovery

“…Flavonoids and saponins are recognized for their anti-inflammatory properties (Meshram et al, 2016;Chang et al, 2023) . According to Syahidah and Subekti (2019) , various metabolite compounds like alkaloids, flavonoids, phenolics, tannins, and terpenoid saponins are present in mangrove plants. Consequently, this plant is extensively utilized in traditional medicine across diverse regions of Indonesia, notably for its anti-inflammatory and antipyretic properties (Arbiastutie et al, 2021;Al Kazman et al, 2022) .…”