Document Type : Original Research Article
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Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Nanded 431606, India
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Since ancient times, Ajwain is one of the popular ayurvedic medicines in the treatment of indigestion, dyspepsia, and gastric disorders. Phytochemical constituents of Ajwain, are day by day getting more attention as medicine because of their efficiency and safer, and also comes with very less side effects. The natural compounds obtained from this ethno-botanical plants are received much more attention in last decades.
The present investigation is focus on the phytochemical analysis of Ajwain seeds which is commonly used as one of the important ingredients of Indian mouth fresheners. The crude extract of Ajwain seeds were obtained through soxhletion in chloroform and water. The presence of secondary metabolites in the Ajwain seeds was done by qualitative and quantitative analysis. The qualitative analysis of crude aqueous extract of Ajwain seeds shown the presence of Cardiac glycosides, as one of the very important cardiac drug used in the heart treatments.
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