The Journal of Phytopharmacology, 2020;9(1):61-66 ; DOI:10.31254/phyto.2020.9110
Pharmacological, biological activities and phytochemical constituents of Calotropis gigantea
Snehal K Bhavsar1 , Sadhana N Patil2 , Pooja S Murkute2 , Sanjay J Surana3
1. Assistant. Professor, Department of Pharmacognosy, R.C. Patel Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research, Near karwand naka, Shirpur-425 405, Dist-Dhule, Maharashtra, India
2. M. Pharm Student (PG fellow) Department of Pharmacognosy, R.C.Patel Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research, Near karwand naka, Shirpur-425 405, Dist-Dhule, Maharashtra, India
3. Principal, R.C. Patel Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research, Near karwand naka, Shirpur-425 405, Dist-Dhule, Maharashtra, India
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Received: 3rd January, 2020 / Accepted: 19th February, 2020
Calotropis gigantean is a class of calotropis belonging to the family Apocynaceae. C. Gigantea is resident in Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, China, Pakistan, Nepal, BoocBooc in Somalia and tropical Africa. This herb produced large amount of latex thus includes in latex bearing plants generally known as giant milk weed. C. Gigantean is known for a multiplicity of pharmacological properties in ancient medicinal system and utilizes to cure a various disease. From few decades, it is broadly studied for its pharmacological as well as medicinal properties by highly developed scientific techniques and various medicinally active compounds obtained from the different parts of the plant and this are analysed pharmacologically. The plant is reported for its various activities like: analgesic, antimicrobial, antioxidant, anti-pyretic, insecticidal, cytotoxicity, hepatoprotective, pregnancy interceptive properties, pro-coagulant activity and wound healing, Antivenom activity, CNS activity. The therapeutic properties of calotropis gigantean plant signify it as aimportant source of therapeutic compound. This study is combined information about the ethnobotany, pharmacology, phytochemistry and natural medicinal activities of the C. gigantea.
Calotropis gigantea, Antimicrobial activity, Cytotoxicity, Ethnobotany, Phytochemistry.
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Bhavsar SK, Patil SN, Murkute PS, Surana SJ. Pharmacological, biological activities and phytochemical constituents of Calotropis gigantea. J Phytopharmacol 2020; 9(1):61-66.
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