Quantitative Phytochemical Analysis and Potential Applications of the Ethanol and Aqueous Ethanol Extracts of Some Selected Plant in Family Zingiberaceae Plants for Cosmeceutical and Health Promoting Food

The rhizomes of the Zingiberaceae family are a vegetable widely used in many Asian nations, and their therapeutic properties have been acknowledged in many traditional recipes. In this work, 3 species of Zingiberaceae plants including Curcuma longa, Curcuma zedoaria and Curcuma aromatic were gathered and evaluated for their phytochemical contents, anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant characteristics using the aqueous-ethanol (30:70%) and ethanol (95%) extraction and varying according to single and mixed extracts (1:1:1 and 2:1:1 ratio respectively) for determining the synergistic effects. The results indicated that extracts of the three selected plant contained at least 5 from 13 phytochemical constituents.