Abstract

A REVIEW ON CALOTROPIS PROCERA (AIT) AND ITS PHARMACOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES

*Inti Pavani and Dr. S. Udayavani

Abstract

Calotropsis procera (Ait) R.Br. is a naturally growing plant. It belongs to the family Asclepiadacea. Calotropis procera is used as herbal medicine traditionally in india. The milky latex of the Calotropis procera is used as folk healers for so many illness. This plant is used as Antihelmintic and ashes behave as an expectorant. In so many countries like African and Asia latex of this plant is used as arrow poison molluscide. It is also used as fungicide, anti syphilitic, antiinflammatory, lepers and purgative. Calotropis procera act as alternative source for energy producing and taken as large scale cultivation. This plant can be cultivated as fuel crops because the plant containing hydrocarbons. Calotropis procera contains huge ethnomedicinal uses and reported many pharmacological actions recently with active chemical constituents.

Keywords: Calotropis procera, Ethnomedicinal, Latex, Anthelmintic.