Phytochemical and Antioxidant Activity of Thai Traditional Recipe: Akineewakana Recipe
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Akineewakana recipe is a Thai traditional medicine that has cannabis as an ingredient which is an elixir medicine group in King Narai the Great. This recipe was used for appetizing, analeptic and antiemesis. These properties are related to the type and quantitative of chemical constituents. Currently, Akineewakana recipe was lack data of phytochemicals. Therefore, this research aims to study the type and phytochemical content by HPLC technique, also the antioxidant activity of Akineewakana recipe was determined. The results showed that the ethanolic Akineewakana recipe extract demonstrated the IC50 value of 56.30±0.29 and 23.39±0.44 µg/ml by DPPH and ABTS assay, respectively. The FRAP value was 448.01±5.72 mmol/100 g Extract. However, this recipe showed lower activity than Trolox (2506.15±13.60 mmol/100 g Extract). The cannabinoid analysis showed a high relative cannabinoid abundance (8130.00±35.59 µg/g Extract) which is d9-THC as the highest content. In addition, it found the relative phenolic and flavonoid abundance as 1804.14±4.86 µg/g Extract. Moreover, the correlation analysis showed that the total phenolic and flavonoid and cannabinoid content correlated with antioxidant activity which is gallic acid and p-hydroxybenzoic acid showed a high correlation with antioxidant significantly. The result suggested that Akineewakana recipe has the potential to be an antioxidant agent. Moreover, this data was used to support the usage of Thai traditional medicine and development of the pharmaceutical products.
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