Vol. 8, Issue 2 (2019)

Author(s):
J Delphine Jaya Mary and Kuppusamy Elumalai

Abstract:
Plants are thought of as associate very important and major resource of healthful properties of living beings. From the past era, there has been high demand to use secondary metabolites and bioactive compounds of plants as healthful agents as a result of artificial medication have indicated a good deal of various aspect effects on the physique. A range of biological activities like inhibitor, malignant tumor and opposing microorganism properties are incontestable by natural phytochemicals derived from plants. The activity of flavonoid and phenolic compounds has been discovered in several latest studies. These are confirmed because the major secondary metabolites with biological activities in plant extracts. Plant phenols are shown to be multifunctional antioxidants which will perform as singlet oxygen quenchers, hydrogen donating antioxidants and reducing agents. In addition a number of important biological effects are confirmed for flavonoids, including antioxidative, antitumor, antiviral, antifungal actions, antibacterial anti-inflammatory and as effective inhibitors of platelet aggregation. They will inhibit a large vary of diseases of the heart, circulatory system, kidneys, muscles, lungs and brain, and that they are terribly useful in retarding the method of aging etc.