Phytochemical and Biological Characterization of Aqueous and Ethanolic Extracts of Parthenium hysterophorus

Abstract

For a long time, plants have been used as traditional treatments for diverse health issues. Their medicinal properties are associated with the presence of phytochemical compounds such as flavonoids, steroids, triterpenes, coumarins, sesquiterpene lactones, tannins, alkaloids, and carbohydrates, which have demonstrated diverse biological activities, including antioxidant activity [7][8] . These phytochemicals can be recovered from plants through different methods of extraction which are classified in traditional and nonconventional methods 9 . Some traditional methods are decoction, maceration, filtration, and Soxhlet extraction. Among these methods, the decoction is an extraction procedure famous for being used in herbal medicines for the recovering of watersoluble and thermostable metabolites with several biological activities including antioxidant activity. In this procedure, the phytochemicals are extracted from plant material dissolved in an aqueous solution in which heat is applied until boiling point. On the other hand, the non-conventional methods involve other procedures such as the ultrasound and microwave-assisted extraction, and supercritical fluid extraction 10 . Among the non-conventional

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