| Summary: | From the beginnings of mankind man sought the relief of his evils with ingestion of herbs
and plants. Nowadays, the study of the compounds produced in the secondary metabolism of plants is
growing, since they have a variety of beneficial effects on the organism. The present work aimed to
perform the phytochemical study of the leaves of the holy grass through phytochemical screening, this
method is based on the change in coloration of precipitate formation of the plant extracts with certain
specific reagents. The leaves were collected crushed and the constituents were extracted by maceration in
methanol, the dry extract by route-evaporation. Flavones, flavonols, xanthones and saponins have been
identified, these classes of compounds have antioxidant and antifungal action. Therefore, new advanced
studies should be performed with other fractions of the species for new drug discovery.
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