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Plants have been used in traditional medicines for treatment of different ailments from ancient times.
Medicinal plants have been one of the richest bio resources for traditional and folk medicines till
date. In India, around 20,000 medicinal plants have been recorded however traditional communities
are currently using only about 7,000 - 7,500 plants for curing different diseases. The medicinal
property of different varieties of Jasminum namely Jasminum grandiflorum (Jajji Mallige),
Jasminum sambac cultivar variety (yelu suttina mallige), Jasminum aungustifolium, Jasminum
sambac wild variety (Gundu Mallige), Jasminum sambac cultivar variety (suji mallige), Jasminum
auriculatum, Jasminum humile (Yellow Jasmine) and Jasminum officinale (Sanna jajji mallige) was
studied in the present investigation and the medicinal property of the plant was checked by
determining the antioxidant property of methanolic and ethanolic solvent extract from the leaves.
The antioxidant property was checked by FRAP assay and it was found that all the samples had
higher antioxidant activity when compared to the standard. The antioxidant activity was not much
varied with methanol or ethanol solvent as both are polar in nature. The antioxidant activity in all
the samples increased with the increase in the concentration of the sample. Jasminum
aungustifolium, Jasminum humile and Jasminum officinale showed higher antioxidant activity when
compared to other solvent extracted samples. The least antioxidant activity was seen by Jasminum
grandiflorum and Jasminum sambac cultivar variety.
Keywords: FRAP, Antioxidant, Methanol, Ethanol, Jasmine species.