Phytochemical and Antimicrobial Study of Crude Extracts of Herbal Potentilla reptans L.

The study was designed to detect the bioactive compounds, antioxidants, and minerals from the herbal plant Potentilla reptans and to investigate the antimicrobial activities of plant extract against certain human pathogenic fungi and bacteria. Phytochemicals procuring many properties, of antioxidant, antiallergic, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, antiproliferative, and anticarcinogenic have been validated scientifically. The crude extract of indigenous herbal Potentilla reptans L. habitat wild, belonging to the Rosaceae family, has been explored in search of therapeutic compounds that amalgamate as associative phytochemical and phytomineral constituents. The plant, Potentilla reptans, was collected from a hillside in Kakching Uyock Ching, Kakching district, India during August and September 2020. Several novel bioactive organic compounds, viz. antioxidant (30.8 µg/mL), saponin (30 mg/g), flavonoid (10.39 mg/g), alkaloid (30 mg/g), phenol (4.33 mg/g), tannin (30.74 mg/g), and minerals like magnesium (4.55 mg/g), iron (1.12 mg/g), sulfur (1.85 mg/g), potassium (1.26 mg/g), manganese (0.10 mg/g), calcium (5.16 mg/g), phosphorous (0.14 mg/g), zinc (0.12 mg/g) and copper (0.06 mg/g), are indispensable sources of precious chemodiversity, the only means for the survivability of species forever on earth have depicted. In an antimicrobial test with crude extracts, a strong positive effect against Staphylococcus aureus in bacteria and Candida albicans, and Microsporum gypseum in fungi by all extracts of MeOH, EtOAc, and CHCl3 was authenticated to the aged old traditional health care system of herbals and novel to unique in home remedy prescriptions. Phytochemically, the majority of the phytoconstituents present in Potentilla reptans are polyphenolics components with phenolics and tannins as the most dominant phytochemicals.