Preliminary Phytochemical Screening, Quantitative Analysis of Alkaloids, and Antioxidant Activity of Crude Plant Extracts from Ephedra intermedia Indigenous to Balochistan

Table 3

Phytochemical analysis for the methanolic and ethanolic extract of E.intermedia.

Phytochemical compounds	Methanolic extract	Ethanolic extract
Cardiac glycosides	+	+
Saponin glycoside	−	−
Alkaloids	+	+
Amino acids	−	−
Starch	−	−
Reducing sugars	+	+
Phenols	+	+
Volatile oil	−	−
Tannin	−	−
Flavonoids	+	+
Steroids	−	+

+ = presence; − = absent.