Antihyperglycemic Activity, Free Radical Scavenging Activity and FTIR of
Syzygium Cumini Linn Pulp Dried Extract
Namrata Dwivedi
*
, Kalpana Trivedi, Indra Prasad Tripathi
Department of Biological Science, Mahatma Gandhi Chitrakoot Gramoday Vishwavidyalaya Chitrakoot, Satna (MP), India
ABSTRACT
Syzygium Cumini is commonly known as black plum or “jamun” is an important medicinal plant in various
traditional systems of medicine. It is effective in the treatment of diabetes mellitus. The plant is rich in compounds
containing anthocyanins, glucoside, ursolic acid, beta sitosterol, ellagic acid, isoquercetin, kaemferol and myrecetin.
The seeds are claimed to contain alkaloid, jambosine, and glycoside jambolin or antimellin, which halts the diastatic
conversion of starch into sugar. This reviewed that validate antidiabetic effect of jamun has been primed to describe
the existing data on the information on Ant hyperglycemic Activity, Free Radical Scavenging Activity and FTIR of
Syzygium Cumini Linn Pulp Dried Extract.
Keywords: Anthocyanins; Syzygium Cumini; Diabetes; Antimellin
INTRODUCTION
The deficiency of insulin secretion and action causes disorder in
endocrine system and it disturbed carbohydrate metabolism
known as diabetes mellitus Syzygium Cumini Linn (family
Myrtaceae) commonly known as ‘‘Jamun” is widely distributed
in tropical and subtropical regions. S. cumini has been valued in
ayurveda and unani system of medication for possessing variety
of therapeutic properties, which is widely used in folk medicine
for the treatment of various diseases. S. Cumini leaf galls,
commonly known as “Karkatshringi” in sanskrit, are extensively
used in ayurveda and several scholars of Indian like Charak,
Sushrutha, Bagvatta and many others have explained in
literature about various Indian medicinal plants. Many
antidiabetic plants have been reported in the Indian literature.
The black jamun is an important indigenous plant of the
family Myrtaceae originally from Indonesia and India. The ripen
fruits are purplish black in colour due to the presence of
anthocyanins. Fruits are rich in minerals and have high
antioxidant property which contributes to many health benefits.
Jamun is highly perishable, therefore, very difficult to store and
market at distant places [1]. Jamun seeds are used in traditional
medicine. The presence of oxalic, tannic, gallic acids and other
alkaloids create one to feel such an astringency taste. The
secondary metabolites have been reported to be potent free
radical scavengers [2,3]. Phenolic and flavonoid compounds
present in S. Cumini are responsible for antioxidant and anti-
inflammatory activities [4].
Phytochemicals, Antioxidant and Antidiabetic Potential
of Syzygium Cumini Linn Pulp Dried Extract
Investigated the presence of phytochemical from the ethanolic
and aquous extracts of these five parts leaf, stem bark, ower, root
and seeds of the Syzygium Cumini [5]. Five parts viz, leaf; stem
bark, ower, root and seeds extracts of Syzygium Cumini were
investigated for their phytochemicals and HPTLC analysis. The
plant extract contains carbohydrates, proteins, alkaloids,
avonoids, tannins, steroids, tri-terpenoids, phenol and saponin
[6]. studied that showed the presence of alkaloids, glycosides,
triterpenoids, steroids, saponins, flavonoids, tannins but
carbohydrates in the absent in extracts of Syzygium Cumini seed
[7]. Revealed that total polyphenol and DPPH of Syzygium
aromaticum. DPPH antioxidant activity showed here (2.2 ± 0.1).
The relation of DPPH activity and α-glucosidase inhibition of
ethyl acetate extracts are given significant proportional results
(r=0.833, p<0.001), here showed moderate correlation was
amylase inhibition activity (r=0.419, p<0.05) [10]. Concluded
that phytochemicals of Syzygium Cumini leaf extracts using
various (ethanolic and methanolic solvent) results showed that
that both the contained most of the active phytoconstituents,
come behind by the ethyl acetate, hexane, than aqueous extracts,
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Correspondence to: Namrata Dwivedi, Department of Biological Science, Mahatma Gandhi Chitrakoot Gramoday Vishwavidyalaya Chitrakoot,
Satna (MP), India, Tel: +91 7489580123; E-mail: namratadwivedi5@gmail.com
Received date: July 04, 2020; Accepted date: July 17, 2020; Published date: July 25, 2020
Citation: Dwivedi N, Trivedi K, Tripathi IP (2020) Antihyperglycemic Activity, Free Radical Scavenging Activity and FTIR of Syzygium Cumini
Linn Pulp Dried Extract. J Vaccines Vaccin.11:420. DOI: 10.35248/2157-7560.20.11.420
Copyright: © 2020 Dwivedi N, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License,
which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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