In vitro thrombolytic and anti-arthritic activities of Heritiera fomes

Abstract

One of the most popular ancient ideas are to find the healing power in plants because many medicinal plants and herbs have been used to fix a lot of diseases and health conditions for a long time. Almost 80% of the present medicines are been found from either directly or indirectly from medicinal plants. One of those most important medicinal plants is Heritiera fomes which is also locally known as Sundari found in Sundarban and locally used by healthcare practitioners to treat different human diseases. It was believed that this tree has thrombolytic and anti-arthritic efficacy also but no study was conducted to prove that. In this in vitro study, extracts of ethanol, petroleum ether, chloroform and ethyl acetate were produced individually from leaves, roots and barks of H. fomes. Successfully, it was found later that the all extracts showed the thrombolytic effect having the percentage of clot lysis up to 22.98±0.2% being so close to standard 24.05±0.4%. Also it possessed anti-arthritic effect by having the percentage of denaturation of protein up to 49.49±0.3% having more than half of the standard efficacy 96.91±0.3% which made this study succeeded in term of both efficacy in H. fomes.