• Dr. O.S.Deshmukh

There has been an increasing interest worldwide on therapeutic values of natural product. The nature provide the mankind vast therapeutic flora with a wide variety of medicinal potential. The revival of intrest in plant derived drugs is mainly due to the current widespread belief that “green medicine” is safe and more dependable than the closely synthetic drugs many of which have adverse side effects. The chemical constituents of plants is desirable for the discovery of therapeutic agents and in discovery the actual value of folklore remedies. Medicinal plants contain organic compounds which provide definite physiological action on the human and animal body. The curative properties of medicinal plants are due to presence of various bioactive substances of different composition which occur as secondary metabolite. These bioactive substances includes tannins, alkaloids, glycosides, phytosterols, saponins, flavonoids, terpenoids, essential oils etc. Whole plants or plant parts like roots, tubers, stems, leaves, flowers, seeds etc. acts as medicinally significant parts. Tribal medicinemen and herbal practitioners from rural areas used plant and plant parts to cure their ailments as well as their live stocks. A large number of medicinal plants are used as alternate medicine for diseases of man and other animals since most of them are without side effects when compared with synthetic drugs. Identification of the chemical nature of phytochemical compounds present in the medicinal plants will provide some information on the different functional groups responsible for their medicinal properties. While studying the in vitro efficacy of bioactive extracts of 15 medicinal plants against ESL producing multi drug resistant bacteria, Iqbal Ahamad et al. (2006) detected major groups of compounds as the most active fraction of four plants extracts by infrared spectroscopy. Ramamoorthi and Kannan (2007) screened the bioactive group of chemicals in the dry leaf powder of Calotropis gigantea by FTIR analysis. Kareru et al. (2008) detected saponins in crude dry powder of 11 plants using FTIR spectroscopy.

Ampelocissus latifolia, Parthenocissus quinquefolia , Spatholobus purpureus , Peucedanum nagpurnse , FTIR Spectroscopy, Functional groups.

"Phytochemical screening by FTIR spectroscopic analysis of ethanolic root extracts of ethnoveterinary medicinal plants", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 9, page no.636-642, September-2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2009384.pdf

"Phytochemical screening by FTIR spectroscopic analysis of ethanolic root extracts of ethnoveterinary medicinal plants", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 9, page no. pp636-642, September-2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2009384.pdf