Phytochemical Evaluation of Ethnobotanically Selected Medicinal Plants of Mardan, Pakistan

Phytochemical and ethnomedicinal study of 27 medicinal plants belonging to different families were carried out. In this study the qualitative analysis of 27 important medicinal plants collected from different sites of Mardan Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan was reported. Different phytochemicals like alkaloids, flavonoids, tannin, terpenoids, anthraquinones, cardiac glycosides, fixed oil and fates, carbohydrates and saponin were analyzed in the specific part of the plant which are being used by the locals as medicine. All the constituents were present differentially in different plants, sixteen plants possess alkaloid, twenty five have flavonoids, twenty plants possess terpenoids, eighteen plants have tannin, eight have anthraquinones, eleven have cardiac glycosides, eight showed fixed oils and fate, and twenty one possess carbohydrates and nineteen plants showed saponin. Ethno medicinal survey of these plants showed that ranging from ear infections, respiratory to urinary diseases, jaundice, diabetes, skin diseases are treated. This study account for the ethnomedicinal importance of the plants by the presence of these phytochemicals which make these plants valuable.  So these results endorse for future isolation of phytochemicals for pharmacological production.