Abstract

Anil Badore^1*, Pramod Pandit¹ and Vijayshri Nilosey²

DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.13005/ojc/400122

According to estimations from the World Health Organization (WHO), certain Asian and African people already utilize herbal medicine for some component of basic healthcare. In the current work, it was intended to perform phytochemical and FTIR analyses on the leaves of Mentha arvensis and Ocimum sanctum in various organic solvents. The findings of this study make it abundantly evident that ocimum sanctum and mentha arvensis leaves have saponins, flavanoids, steroids, alkaloids, phenols, Tannins, glycosides, and terpenoids in them when they underwent preliminary phytochemical examination. The current work uses FTIR spectroscopy to investigate the leaf extracts of two medicinal plants, Ocimum sanctum and Mentha arvensis, using water, ethanol, hexane, ethyl acetate, and benzene as solvents. The FTIR spectroscopy analyses identified numerous functional chemicals in the extracts with distinct distinctive peak values. The presence of amide, alcohols, phenols, alkanes, carboxylic acids, aldehydes, ketones, alkenes, primary amines, aromatics, esters, ethers, alkyl halides, and aliphatic amines compounds, which showed major peaks, was confirmed by FTIR analysis of ethanol and hexane leaf extracts of ocimum sanctum and mentha arvensis.

Mentha arvensis; Ocimum sanctum; Organic Solvents; phytochemical examination

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