Plants are a source of large amount of drugs compromising to different groups such as antispasmodics, emetics, anti-cancer, anti-microbial etc. The WHO estimated that 80% of the population of developing countries still relies on traditional medicine, mostly plant drugs for their primary health care needs. Hence, there is an urgent need to study the screening of antioxidant properties of herbs which will be helpful in the treatment of several diseases. Antioxidants are an inhibitor of the process of oxidation, even at relatively small concentration and thus have diverse physiological role in the body. Antioxidants may be synthetic or natural. Synthetic antioxidants such as BHT and BHA have recently been reported to be dangerous for human health. Thus, the search for effective, non-toxic natural compound with antioxidative activity has been intensified in recent years. In this present review, an attempt has been made to give information about the antioxidant activity of Bougainvillea Glabra, which is an immensely showy, floriferous and hardy plant.
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