A Review of Pharmacological Action of Certain Herbal Drugs

Authors

  • Lalit Tiwari Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeial Laboratory, Ghaziabad 201002, India
  • Nitin Rai Department of Botany, M. M. H. (PG) College, Ghaziabad 201002, India
  • Rajeev Kr. Sharma Pharmacopoeial Laboratory for Indian Medicine, Ghaziabad 201002, India

Abstract

 

Plants are fundamental to almost all life on earth, providing protection and sustenance for organism ranging from a microorganism to a large animal even too certain categories of plant species. Plants can be considered as chemical factories that have been evolving their biosynthetic pathway programmes over the last decades. During this evolution, plants have synthesized an array of compounds whose structural diversity is often beyond the imagination of even the most imaginative organic chemists. Plants appear to have evolved the chemical pathways to produce many chemical compounds, which are responsible for many pharmacological activities resulting to medicinal potentiality of that plant species. Present communication reviews the pharmacological actions of three important herbal drugs used in a number of herbal formulations, along with their taxonomy and phytochemistry.

 

Keywords: Pharmacology, Taxonomy, Phytochemistry, Emblica officinalis, Syzygium cumini, Terminalia chebula

Published

2021-01-09

Issue

Section

Research Article