EVALUATION OF ANTIOXIDANT PROPERTIES OF Valeriana wallichi TO SCAVENGE FREE RADICALS.

Antioxidants have imperative anticipatory roles, not merely on detrimental changes in the aroma and dietetic eminence of food, although on tissue damage in an assortment of human diseases. Cellular smash up or else oxidative injury arising from free radicals or reactive oxygen species (ROS) nowadays appears the elementary mechanism underlying a numeral of human being neurodegenerative disorders, viral infections, diabetes, inflammation, autoimmune pathologies along with digestive system disorders. Free radicals are generated all the way through customary metabolism of drugs, ecological chemicals and erstwhile xenobiotics as well as endogenous chemicals, particularly stress hormones (adrenalin and noradrenalin). Accumulated substantiation suggests that ROS can be scavenged during chemoprevention utilizing innate antioxidant compounds present in foods and medicinal plants. The Methanolic extracts of Valeriana wallichi was used in present study and also screened for the presence of phyto-chemicals viz. alkaloids, flavonoids, tannins, saponins, glycosides etc and their effect on 2,2-Diphenyl-1-picryl-hydraxyl radical (DPPH) which was used to determine the free radical scavenging activity.