Natural remedies have been used in alternative medicine for thousands of years, and now an astonishing variety of drugs have been isolated from plants and animals. Pisum sativum, also known as "Motorsuti" in Bangladesh, is one of the various medicinal plants that have the ability to heal a variety of ailments. The current study was carried out to screen the phytochemical properties of methanol extract of P. sativum plant seeds cultivated in Bangladesh as well as to study the antibacterial and antioxidant efficacy using several validated experimental methods. In vitro antioxidant activity was evaluated using the 2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical-scavenging assay, while antibacterial activity was evaluated using the well diffusion method against a panel of pathogenic bacterial strains. Screening tests of the P. sativum seed extract demonstrated the presence of proteins, terpenoids, glycosides, alkaloids, carbohydrates, flavonoids, saponins, quinine, gum, and alkaloids.
Keywords: Antioxidant Assay, DPPH, Pisum sativum, Methanol, phytochemicals, free radicals, antibacterial agents.
30-Jun-2023
