Preliminary Phytochemical Screening of Hura crepitans Leaf, Stem Bark, and Root Aqueous Extract

This study investigate preliminary phytochemical analysis of aqueous Hura crepitans leaf, stem bark, and root. The result the phytochemical screening reveal that flavonoids, polysteroids, terpenoids, tannins, glycoside, alkaloids, phelonics, and saponins are present on leaves, stem bark, and root of Hura crepitans plant. These secondary metabolites are more concentrated at the root, followed by the stem bark; while the leaves has the least concentration and they exhibit a strong physiochemical and pharmacological effects as they traditionally employed in herbal medicines, they also pose reductive and stabilizing effect in nanoparticle synthesis where they act as natural reducing and capping/stabilization agents by donating electron to metal ions.