CENTELLA ASIATICA L.: A CONCISE DRUG REVIEW WITH PROBABLE CLINICAL USES
Journal Title: Mintage journal of pharmaceutical and medical sciences - Year 2016, Vol 5, Issue 1
Abstract
Centella asiatica L. is widely used as a medicinal herbs and alternative medicine in treating numerous kinds of diseases since prehistoric times. It is a perennial, creeper, faintly aromatic and a valuable medicinal herb of both Old World and the New World. The use of Centella in food and beverages has increased over the years basically due to its beneficial functional properties. Its potential antioxidant, antimicrobial, cytotoxic, neuroprotective and other activities have been widely claimed in many reports. The requirement of Centella asiatica is now met from natural population, leading to their gradual depletion and thus followed by its placement in the list of threatened species as mentioned by IUCN. It is distributed throughout tropical and subtropical regions of World such as Bangladesh, India, China, Nepal, Madagascar, Sri Lanka and Indonesia etc. The present review is an up-to-date and comprehensive literature analysis of the chemistry and various heath beneficial functional properties of the Centella plant.
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Md. Aminul islam apu
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