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Plants serve as a basis of traditional medicinal systems for thousands of years. Careya arborea Roxb. (family Lecythidaceae) is distributed throughout India in deciduous forests and grasslands. It is a medium sized deciduous tree up to 20m tall the leaves of which turns red in the cold season. Traditionally Bark is used to cure burn skin, jaundice, wound healing and cough and asthma. The present investigation was carried out to determine the chemical components in the bark of C. arborea by GC-MS technique. It is revealed that C. arborea bark extract shows presence of n-hexadecanoic acid (28.06%), Stigmasterol (31.27%) and Lupeol (40.68%). These phytoconstituents have antimalarial, antioxidant, antiflue, antihyperglycemic, antitumor, antiviral, pesticidal, cytotoxic, anti-inflammatory, antiashmatic, antimicrobial, anti-cancer and antiarthritic properties which justify the folklore use of bark in traditional system to cure various ailments. |
