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A REVIEW ON-PHARMACOLOGICAL EFFECT OF AVERRHOA CARAMBOLA

Gurjeet Kaur*, Ram Veer Maurya and Dr. Atul Kumar

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Abstract

Averrhoa carambola (Star fruit), a fruit of dryland which is a widely grown indigenous shrub in India and is able to flourish in marginal and wasteland where other crops of commercial importance are unsuitable. Collection, conservation and evaluation, a process of crop improvement for characterization and selection of elite plants, are being successfully performed in different parts of India and standardized its vegetative technique of propagation. Its fruits have been utilized in processed products such as in the preparation of jam, jelly, squash, syrup and chutney and is in great demand in the international market. Averrhoa carambola are traditionally used to treat various diseases, such as chest pain, headaches, gonorrhoea, rheumatism, syphilis, oedema, rabies, stomach pain, hepatitis, cardiac diseases, and asthma. The pharmacological studies on Averrhoa carambola revealed its antioxidant, antimicrobial, anticancer, cardioprotective, antipyretic, analgesic, wound healing, anticonvulsant, antiarthritic, adaptogenic, anti-inflammatory, and antidiabetic activities, thus validating its use in indigenous medicine systems.

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