Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis from a Pharmaceutically Important Medicinal Plant Plumbago Zeylanica

Purpose: In the Ayurvedic system of medicine, Plumbago zeylanica is one of the important medicinal plants which possess several pharmaceutical activities such as antiplasmodial, anti-microbial, antitumour, hepatoprotective, antifungal, antiinflammatory and anticancer activity. It contains several active constituents and the most important bioactive compound is plumbagin which is a naphthoquinone. Recently nanoparticles have gained its significance in the medical fields due to its higher surface area to volume ratio. In this study silver nanoparticles were synthesised from the in-vitro grown accession of Plumbago zeylanica.