Abstract

Aegle marmelos (L.) Correa (Rutaceae), is native to India, popularly known as bael is a deciduous tree and the basis of marmalade, having extensive medicinal, pharmacological, ethnomedicinal and conventional properties with further extensively use in the Indian traditional system of medicine the Ayurveda along with its use in various folk medicine to treat myriad ailments. Out of different plant species present globally humans use approximately 10–15% of them to fulfill their basic needs such as food, medicine and shelter. Aegle marmelos,with capacity to acclimatize successfully to a wide range of habitats, is used to cure various diseases. This present study was conducted during march 2017 at Shoolini universiry, Solan (H.P) to November 2017 to study the presence of various secondary metabolites present in leaves of Aegle maemelos.The study was initiated with the prepration of extracts by soxhlet extraction in three different solvents i.e. aqueous, methanol and chloroform. The aqueous, methanol and chloroform extract of leaves of Aegle marmelos collected from Himalayan region revealed the presence of various bioactive phytochemicals. The aqueous extract showed the appearance of tannins, saponins, cardiac glycosides, terpenoids, flavonoids and phenols. The methanolic extract showed the comportment of tannins, saponins, cardiac glycosides, phenols, terpenoids, flavonoids, alkaloids and phlobatannins,while the chloroform extract had the presence of saponins, cardiacglycosides, phenols, terpenoids, alkaloids and phlobatannins respectively. The presence of these compounds indicates the potential therapeutic value of this plant and hence extremelyuseful in medicinal sciences.