Bio Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles from Leaf Extract of Cassia Auriculata Flower Extract and its Antioxidant, Antimicrobial, Anticancer Activities

Biochemistry

Cassia auriculata Linn commonly known as Tanners Senna, is also known as Avaram tree. Senna auriculata is a distributed thorough hot deciduous forest of India. Cassia auriculata is an evergreen shrub that grows in many parts of India and in other parts of plants. The genus cassia comprises over 500 species, is a large group of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes almost 751 genera and about 19,000 different species, which are widely, distributed in the dry forests of different regions mainly Africa, America and tropical rainforests (Burnham & Johnson, 2004; Christenhusz & Byng, 2016). The flower, buds, leaves, stem, root and unripe fruit are used for treatment especially in Ayurvedic medicine. Cassia plants exhibit pharmacological activities at large scales such as antimicrobial, anticancer, anti inflammatory, antioxidant, hypoglycemic, hyperglycemic, anti mutagenic, and antiviral.

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