47INVITRO ANTI- OXIDANTS ACTIVITY OF FLOWERS OF BARRINGTONIA ACUTANGULA L.The flowers of the Barringtonia acutangula (L.) is traditional remedies for the many disease condition such as pain, hepatic cirrhosis, inflammation, diarrhea, convulsion, dementia, pyrexia, ulcer, healing of wounds. It is very population perennial herb that is distributed in world wide. In this present study the ethanol extract of flowers Barringtonia acutangula L. were investigated by using DPPH scavenging test and reducing power method. The preliminary phytochemical screening was performed and the total phenolic content had been estimated. The EEBA exhibited a significant dose dependent inhibition of DPPH activity. The IC50 values of the EEBA and reference standard ascorbic acid have significant anti-oxidant activity and the similar activity was shown in the other method also.sandhyaguggilla9@gmail.comResearch422014Barringtonia acutangula L,Antioxidant,DPPH radical scavengingG. Sandhyarani,K.Swathi,Gangarapu.Kiran,K. Praveen Kumar,Alli RameshVaageswari College of Pharmacy, Karimnager, Andhra Pradesh, India.,Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kakatiya University, Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, India.,Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Kakatiya Institute of Pharmaceutical sciences, Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, India.,Vaagdevi College of Pharmacy, Medicinal Chemistry Research Division, Hanamkonda, Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, India.,Vaagdevi College of Pharmacy, Medicinal Chemistry Research Division, Hanamkonda, Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, India.