Antibacterial, antidiabetic and antioxidant bioevaluation of Griff. and isolation of a flavan type compound.

The plant based natural products have always been a rich source of bioactive molecules for drug discovery. The tender shoots of Griff., an edible medicinal plant was extracted using methanol, water and ethanol as three different solvents to study the effect of the extracting solvents and temperature on their antioxidant, antidiabetic and antibacterial properties and total phenolic and flavonoid contents.

Antioxidant and Antidiabetic Properties of Extracts from Three Underutilized Food Plants of North East India.

Three underutilized leafy vegetables Sarcochlamys pulcherrima (Roxb.) Gaudich (SP), Ipomoea aquatica Forssk. (IA) and Zanthoxylum rhetsa (Roxb.