UJI AKTIVITAS ANTIOKSIDAN EKSTRAK ETANOL HERBA PEGAGAN (Centella asiatica (L.) Urb) DENGAN METODE FOSFOMOLIBDAT

Authors

  • Nina Salamah Farmasi UAD
  • Liani Farahana Farmasi UAD

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12928/pharmaciana.v4i1.394

Keywords:

antioxidant, free radical, phosphomolybdate, Centella asiatica (L.) Urb, ethanolic extract

Abstract

Antioxidant compound extends widely used to prevent degenerative disease. Centella asiatica
(L.) Urb or known as pegagan is a plant which grown in Indonesia and it’s leaves contain some
compounds reported to have antioxidant activities. The research aimed to know antioxidant activity of
ethanolic extract of pegagan herbs by mechanism of reducing power. The antioxidant activity analyzed
using visible spectrophotometric with phosphomolybdate method. Antioxidant activity of ethanolic
extract of pegagan was expressed as mg quercetin equivalence/gram extract). The result showed that
using this method the ethanolic extract of pegagan activity had antioxidant activity which is
43.198 ± 2.048 mg mgQE/gram extract.

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Published

2014-05-01

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2014): Pharmaciana

Section

Analytical Pharmacy and Medicinal Chemistry

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