Phytochemical investigation of organic Alkaloid composition of Medicinal Plant (Peganum harmala L.) collected from several growing areas of Ardabil province

Subject Areas : The Application of Chemistry in Environment

Hojjat Eghbal ¹ , Solmaz Mousavinia ² , Mehdi Ahmadi Sabegh ³

1 - Department of Phytochemistry, Basic Sciences Research Center, Tabriz University, Iran.
2 - Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Ahar Branch, Ahar, Iran.
3 - Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Ahar Branch, Ahar, Iran.

Received: 2022-10-25 Accepted : 2022-11-07 Published : 2022-07-23

Keywords: Seed, alkaloid, Ardabil province, Phytochemical, Pecan,

Abstract :

As living organisms, plants produce secondary metabolites as a means of adapting to various ecological conditions and phenomena around them in order to preserve themselves and future generations. The country of Iran, with its high climatic diversity, is one of the richest sources of medicinal plants in the world. Medicinal plant (Peganum harmala L.) is one of the important medicinal plants of North-West Iran and has a wide distribution in most regions of the country. The seeds of this medicinal plant are rich in alkaloids, which are used in the treatment of many diseases, including cancer, rheumatism, diabetes, blood pressure, heart and blood vessels, etc. Medicinal compounds of plants are influenced by environmental factors such as salinity. For this purpose, pecan medicinal plant seeds were collected from Mashgin-Shahr, Garami and Pars-Abad regions of Ardabil province and its total alkaloid was determined in the research and development department laboratory of Danesh-Banyan Green Medicine Researchers. . Determination of total alkaloid was done by spectrophotometric method using bromocrosol green with 3 repetitions. The results of the study showed that the total amount of alkaloids in the plant seeds from Meshgin Shahr region was higher than other regions and the lowest amount of alkaloids was found in the plant seeds from Pars Abad region. The results obtained were significant at the 5% level.