EVALUTION OF ANTIOXIDANT PROPERTY OF LEAVES EXTRACT OF ADIANTUM CAPILLUS-VENERIS FROM SOUTH EAST OF MARIVAN

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Adiantumcapillus-venerisis cultivated as a popular garden fern and houseplant.It is found in temperate climates from warm-temperate to tropical, where the moisture content is high but not saturating, in the moist, well-drained sand, loam or limestone many habitats. Adiantumcapillusveneris Linn has been recommended in ancient literature of Unani system of medicine as an important ingredient of many formulations for the treatment of urolithiasis. Its decoction has long been used for the same purpose by several Unani physicians. . Extractions methanolic were performed with a Soxhlet apparatus. [3] Hawthorne S, Grabanski C, Martin E, Miller D. Journal of Chromatography A. 2000, 892(1–2), 421–433 We collected this plant in November 2015 from southeast of marivan Antioxidant activity was determined in the 1,1-diphenyl-2-picryl-hydrazyl (DPPH) and ferric reducing power tests. The extract had significant antioxidant activity in all assays, IC50 values were found to be 60.255μg/ml in leaf extracts respectively for their antioxidant activity by DPPH assay and reduced Fe 3+ ferricyanide complex to the ferrous form (Fe 2+ ).The findings indicated promising antioxidant activity of crude extracts of the plant and needs further exploration for their effective use in both modern and traditional system of medicines