Pharmacological investigations on Melochia corchorifolia leaf extract

Dr Palaksha M N, Associate professor,HOD, Aditya College of Pharmacy, has 9years of experience in teaching the pharmacy students.He has published 31research papers in reputed national and international journals. He has published a research book in Lambert academic publishing.This is part of his research work along with Dr.K.Ravishankar.

This research work was carried out to establish scientific based evidence on folkloric usage and knowledge. The aim of this work is Pharmacological evaluation of Melochia corchorifolia leaves (folkloric) for antioxidant, diuretic, antiurolithiatic, anticancer, antibacterial and anthelmintic activities. In this regard, Melochia corchorifolia leaves were extracted with chloroform and ethylalcohol. The obtained extracts were used for pharmacological activities, the antioxidant activity results, the extracts and its Phenolic content shows good averting activity. Diuretic and saluretic activity is due to altering renal sodium excretion.The antiurolithiatic activity may be due to the presence of secondary metabolites of the extract.The extracts produced good anticancer activity on HCT-116 cell line and MCF-07 cancer cell lines. The chloroform extracts of Melochia corchorifolia shows good antibacterial and anthelmintic activities. So it was concluded that this research work supports the folkloric usage of this herbal drug (Melochia corchorifolia) is a potential source for treating various ailments.