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Abstract
Terminalia bellirica is one of the very popularly used plant in traditional medicine for the treatment of various diseases. Fruits of T. bellirica is having several applications as medicine and used in various household activities, however leaves remains relative less explored part. Therefore during this study solvent extract of T. bellirica was studied for the presence of phytochemicals and antioxidant activity. T. bellirica exhibited the occurrence of oil and fats, glycosides, protein and amino acids, carbohydrates, tannins, phenolic compounds, alkaloids and flavonoids as major photochemical groups. Extract also exhibited high dose dependent antioxidant activity in DPPH radical scavenging assay (IC50: 62.51 µg/mL), reducing power assay (OD value of 1.07±0.18 at 1000 μg/ml), hydrogen peroxide scavenging assay (IC50: 183.64μg/ml) and total antioxidant assay (OD value of 1.167±0.13 at 1000 μg/ml)).