Abstract

A REVIEW ON THE ETHNOBOTANY, PHYTOCHEMISTRY AND PHARMACOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES OF CAESALPINIA DECAPETALA (ROTH) ALSTON

Sachin Patil* and Sagar Deshmukh

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Abstract

Caesalpinia decapetala (Roth) Alston is an understudied plant with significant ethnobotanical promise. The species is grown as a hedge plant, because of its attractive yellow-coloured inflorescences. Now days the plant has been naturalised around the globe, where it is now considered a noxious weed in certain areas. In order to search the scientific literature, we used databases such as PubMed, Research gate, Scopus and Science. It has been discovered through various studies that the plant contains numerous biologically active chemical compounds with cassane diterpenoids, which exhibits anti-microbial, anti-fertility, anti-diabetic, anti-viral activities as well as having potent cytotoxic and hepatoprotective properties. The high antioxidant capacity of the plant material may make it a possible food preservative and packaging material in the future, and the high fibre quality should make it a suitable raw material for the paper manufacturing industry. As a result, the species has enormous potential in the future for pharmacological and industrial uses and there is need of doing adequate research on the biological activity of numerous chemical substances.

Keywords: Biological activities, Caesalpinia decapetala, Ethnobotany, Phytochemical compounds, Reviews.