Pharmacognostical and Phytochemical Evaluation of Leaves of Mimusops elengi L.
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Pharmacy and Biological Sciences (IOSR-JPBS) - Year 2017, Vol 12, Issue 4
Abstract
Herbal drug attaining wide acceptance day by day because they are safe, very effective and less costly. The utilization of plant as a medicine is mentioned in Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani medicines etc. but the therapeutic properties of most of them have not be proven scientifically. Therefore, Pharmacognostic and Phytochemical evaluation of Mimusops elengi L. is carried out to know the complete information of crude drug. Mimusops elengi L. (Sapotaceae) is an important medicinal plant because each and every part is used in treatment of various ailments. Boiled leaves are applied to head as a cold compress for headache and juice of the leaves squeezed into the eye for sore eye. In folk medicine infusion of bark is prescribed internally in disease of bladder and urethra. Unripe fruit is used as masticatory. It is therefore recommended to be chewed for fixing loose teeth. Powder of dried flower is a brain tonic and is useful as a snuff to treat Cephalalgia. So it is important to standardized the plant materials to be used as medicine. In this context the present work has been undertaken to examine the physiochemical and pharmacognostic evaluation of plant.
Authors and Affiliations
Vineeta Singh, V. N. Pandey, Kalawati Shukla
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