Abstract

A REVIEW ON PHARMACOLOGICAL PROPERTIES POSSESSED BY MOMORDICA DIOICA

Sharanpreet Singh*, Jyotsana Sharma, Shivani Chaudhary, Shivam Panday

ABSTRACT

Momordica dioica is a perennial and dioecious plant of family Cucurbitaceae. climbing creeper (commonly known as kakrol, spiny gourd or teasle gourd)) The aqueous extract of Momordica dioica fruit possesses very good anti-diabetic activity and is having high margin of safety. apart from its use as curative agents it’s also used as vegetable or food with nutritional quality Momordica dioica is considered as an underutilized vegetable, although having significant presence of certain compounds containing higher nutritional value than many frequently consumed vegetables. This review aims to take an attempt to evaluate the phytochemical, ethno botanical, phytotherapeutical and pharmacological properties of Momordica dioica according to the view of traditional medicinal plant based treatment including ayurveda along with recent scientific observations. Moreover, as a traditional medicinal plant, it is still potential for its phytochemical components that increase the demand of further extensive evaluation to justify its other therapeutical roles. Therefore, this effort will be helpful to researchers who interested to disclose the unjustified phytotherapeutical role of Momordica dioica. We believe this study of Momordica dioica medicinal plant presented in this review will be useful to researchers, as well as practitioners.

Keywords: Cucurbitaceae, Curative agent and Nutritional value.