BIOCHEMICAL STUDIES ON CHENOPODIUM MURALE AND SONCHUS OLERACEUS PLANTS

Abstract

This research was conducted to evaluate the successive extraction of the active ingredients and their antioxidant activity, antibacterial, anticancer activity as well as anti-arthritic activity of arial parts (stem, leaves and flowers) of the Chenopodium murale and Sonchus oleraceus plants. Biogided fractionation of plant was processed to investigate the biological importance of each fraction. The obtained results can be summarized as follows: Proximate analysis of aerial parts of C. murale and S. oleraceus aerial parts Chenopodium murale and Sonchus oleraceus aerial parts were analyzed for moisture, ash, crude protein, crude lipid and total carbohydrate. The moisture content of C. murale was 92.45% and S. oleraceus 92.72%. High percentage in the crude protein content was observed. The highest content of crude protein in C. murale was 30.42%. compared to S. oleraceus it is 25.94%. It was also noticed that the fat content of C. murale was 2.86% and for S. oleraceus was 4.05%. The C. murale also showed the highest ash content 18.19%, while S. oleraceus showed the lowest ash content 15.14%, The carbohydrate content reached the maximum for the C. murale (54.87%) and the minimum for S. oleraceus (48.53%) as dry weight bases.