PHYTOCHEMICAL SCREENING OF PAEDERIA FOETIDA A RARE MEDICINAL PLANT ? A REVIEW

Natural products chemistry has originated from mankind’s curiosity about colour, taste, odor and cures for human, animal and plant diseases. A number of chemical substances accumulate and produced by the plants there is no role has yet been found in growth, photosynthesis, reproduction, or other "primary" functions. These are stable products of metabolism. Many thousands have been identified in several major classes. And all these are smaller molecules but exhibit great diversity in their types, structures and occurrence. Each plant family, genus, and species produces a characteristic mix of these chemicals, and they can sometimes be used as taxonomic characters in classifying plants. The present work aims to screening of different secondary metabolites in methanolic extracts and tabulated their presence or absence.