Acta Pharmaciae Indonesia : Acta Pharm Indo
Vol 8 No 2 (2020): Acta Pharmaciae Indonesia : Acta Pharm Indo

Antioxidant Activity and Total Flavonoid Content of Zingiber aromaticum Val.

Sunarto Sunarto (Unknown)
Nur Amalia Choironi (Unknown)
Faridah Laeli Syarifah (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
29 Dec 2020

Abstract

Increase prevalence of degenerative disease caused by free radicals. Zingiber aromaticum is known to be used as traditional medicine. The purpose of this study was to known antioxidant activity and total flavonoid content of Z. aromaticum from Lembang. The extract was obtained by maceration method using ethanol solvent. Total flavonoid content was carried out using spectrophotometry. The antioxidant activities was carried out by Ferric Reducing Antioxidant Power (FRAP) method. Corellation between total flavonoid content and antioxidant activities using statistic with Pearson’s Correlation method. The results shown that antioxidant activities of Z. aromaticum is weak with total flavonoid content is 9,924 ± 0,544 mg quercetin/ g extract.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

api

Publisher

Subject

Medicine & Pharmacology

Description

Journal of Acta Pharmaciae Indonesia is a journal published twice a year by Pharmacy Department, Jenderal Soedirman University, Purwokerto with the Number of ISSN 2337-8433 and E-ISSN 2621-4520. Our journal discusses various pharmaceutical fields in terms of Pharmaceutics & Pharmaceutical ...