Abstract

PHYTOCHEMICAL AND PHARMACOLOGICAL REVIEW ON MORINGA CONCANENSIS

Neha Pandey*, Sandeep Kumar Yadav, Kumkum Mathur

ABSTRACT

According to a world health organization survey, about 75-80% of the world’s population relies on non-conventional medicine, mainly of herbal source, in their primary health care. In the past few decades, a massive amount of scientific information concerning plants, crude extracts and various substances from plants as medicinal agents has come to light. Moringa concanensis is a plant whose parts are commonly used in the medicinal treatments. There is vast anecdotal information about the biological activity of Moringa concanensis which includes anti-cancerous, anti-bacterial, antifungal, analgesic and anti- inflammatory type of activities. The leaves of Moringa concanensis were found to contain higher amount of triterpenoids and flavonoids. The present review comprises the Phytochemical, ethno pharmacological and pharmacological reports of Moringa concanensis. The future scope of the plant has been emphasized with a view to isolate bioactive moieties which could be used for multifarious biological activities.

Keywords: anti-cancerous, anti-bacterial, antifungal, analgesic and anti- inflammatory.