| Autor: |
Pulok K. Mukherjee, N Satheesh Kumar, Nisha Narayanan, Sunil Rajan, Atish K. Sahoo |
| Rok vydání: |
2009 |
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| Zdroj: |
Oriental Pharmacy and Experimental Medicine. 9:101-105 |
| ISSN: |
1598-2386 |
| DOI: |
10.3742/opem.2009.9.2.101 |
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SUMMARY Morinda tinctoria Roxb. (Family: Rubiaceae) is commonly known as Indian mulberry or Aal inIndia. This plant is very well known for its therapeutic benefit in Indian systems of medicineincluding Ayurveda and Siddha and in other forms of traditional Medicine worldwide for thetreatment of several ailments. Almost all parts of this plant have been explored for its medicinaluses. Several reports on the phytochemical and therapeutic benefits of this plant have beenreported. In this article an attempt has been made to review the traditional uses, phytochemicalprofiles and therapeutic potentials of Indian mulberry.Key words: Morinda tinctoria ; Therapeutic potential; Phytoconstituents; Ayurveda; Siddha; Indianmulberry INTRODUCTION Botanical drugs and dietary supplements may bederived from a broader variety of plants that arenormally present in the human diet. Botanicals orphytopharmaceuticals are a perfect fit for prophylacticuse in order to prevent diseases and also for ournormal wellbeing. The screening and evaluation ofmedicinal plants mostly depends on propercultivation and collection of the plant materialsfollowed by their extraction and deriving thephytochemical entities to access the optimizedbioactive compound production and use in therapy.This is very much required for multi-componentdrugs and their standardized extracts for assuringthe quality and batch to batch consistency(Mukherjee, 2002). The Indian subcontinent, withthe history of one of the oldest civilization,harbours many traditional health care systems.Their development was supported by the diversebiodiversity in flora and fauna due to variations ingeographical landscaping (Mukherjee and Wahile,2006). Therefore the potential plants need to beexplored for new drug development. Reviews ofseveral medicinal plants including oriental medicineMangifera indica (Rai et al., 2007), therapeutic potentialsand untoward effects of Piper betle (Rai et al., 2005)has been reported from our laboratory. Beside this |
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