Skip to content
Research Article Open access

Evaluation of Phytochemical Profile and Haemolytic Activity of Acacia mearnsii

Francisca Pinto, Fernanda Silva, Antony Barbosa

British Journal of Pharmaceutical Research · pp. 1–6 · Published 10 Jan 2016

10.9734/bjpr/2016/30173

Abstract

Acacia mearnsii is characterized as a tree with dark green leaves and grow on any types of soil. Its bipinnate leaves with individual leaflets that are used in folk medicine in wound healing, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and antiviral. Phytochemical tests demonstrated the presence of saponins, flavonoids and tannins. The haemolytic activity evaluation of dry crude buthanolic leaves extract of A. mearnsii confirming the presence of saponins as a chemical marker of this species presenting a low haemolytic content in comparison with Tribullus terrestres, herbal reference product.

Pharmacy Pharmacogenomics Medicine Pharmacology Clinical pharmacology Pharmaceutics Clinical pharmacy Traditional medicine

Cited by 3

Phytochemical and Biological Characterization of Aqueous and Ethanolic Extracts of Parthenium hysterophorus

MA Alfaro Jimenez, Alejandro Zugasti‐Cruz, SY Silva Belmares · Pharmacognosy Journal · 2021

Isolation of Valuable Bioactive Compounds from Aerial Parts of Black Wattle, a Forest Solid Waste

Ana Valéria de Gonçalves Prietsch, Patrícia Weimer, Lenise Maria Spies · Waste and Biomass Valorization · 2021

Showing 2 of 3 known citations — external sources report more than can currently be individually listed.

Article metrics

Real usage data collected on this platform.

0

Page views

0

PDF downloads

0

Outbound clicks

3

Citations

Views by country

Approximate, from request IP at view time — not citizenship or institution. Countries with fewer than 5 views are grouped as "Other".

No views recorded yet.

Traffic sources

Referring site, by host.

No traffic recorded yet.

Views and downloads exclude known bots/crawlers. Citations combines this platform's own DOI-resolved index with each external source's own reported total — see Cited by above for individually listed citing works. Last refreshed 0 seconds ago.