Abstract

COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW ON PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF EUGENOL

Mohammed Ajmal P.*, Ashoka Shenoy and A. R. Shabaraya

Abstract

Medicinal plants are considered rich sources of traditional medicines, and many modern medicines are derived from them. For thousands of years medicinal plants have been used to treat different health disorders. Eugenol is a hydroxyphenyl propene, naturally occurring compound in the essential oils of various sort of plant belonging to limiaceae, lauraceae, myrtaceae and myristicaceae families. A large body of scientific evidence supports claims from traditional medicine that eugenol exert beneficial effect on human health and has several pharmacological activity. This review article is an attempt to update on the succinct study of pharmacological actions of eugenol. eugenol has anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, anti-fungal, antiviral, antiparasitic, and anticancer effect and also studies shows that it have cardio vascular and antidepressant effect but eugenol has been used for dental analgesic purposes

Keywords: Eugenol, Essential oil, anti-inflammatory, anti-fungal, dental analgesic, antibacterial.