Abstract

PHARMACOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES OF CENTRATHERUM PUNCTATUM – A REVIEW

P. Hari Vishva*, M. Vanitha, C. Jothimanivannan, S. Ganesan, A. Abdul Azim and K. Gokulnath

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Abstract

Centratherum Punctatum plant is very well known for its therapeutics benefits in Indian systems of medicine including Ayurveda and Siddha and in other forms of traditional medicine worldwide for the treatment of several ailments. It observed that many traditional utilities of got their authentication when tested using different disease-based pharmacological models taking various extracts of roots, leaves, and root oil as test samples. Our review article focusses to pharmacological activites are anti-oxidant, anthelmintic, anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory, laravicidal activity, protease activity, prolifretive activity, anti-fungal, cytotoxicity, antiplasmodial, antimicrobial, HIV-1 reverse transcriptase inhibitory, synergistic activity, wound healing property. This article can give potential research areas to explore next, and to formulate new formulation in allopathy and some traditional medicine system.

Keywords: “Anticancer”, “Antifungal”, “Anthelmintic”, “Centratherum punctatum”, “Kesavardhini”, “larvicidal activity”.