Abstract

REVIEW ARTICLE ON OLEA EUROPAEA L. (OLIVE): A RESERVOIR PLANT WITH PHARMACOLOGICAL ACTIVITY

Chestha Rawat* and Monika Bisht

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Abstract

Nature has always been a great supporter of human life, even in the worse of situation we are dependent on nature. Apart from scenic beauty, peace, greenery and relaxation of mind, it has also provide us with vast herbal therapy. Various plants, various species each fulfilled with plenty of chemical constituents, every chemical moiety owning the property to heal the suffering, not to mention with the least most side effects, poisnous plants an exception. This review is totally based on the most common plant Olive and its pharmacological activity.Its uses both medicinally as well as commercially is known. Medicinally, it is used as antioxidant, anticarcinogenic, antiinflammatory, antimicrobial, antihypertensive, antidyslipidemic, cardiotonic, laxative, antiplatelet, antisiabetic, etc where as commercially its used as olive oil, olive stone, olive cake ad olive wood. There are three different types of edible olive oil prepared in different ways Kalamata olives (20.3%), green olives (39.7%) and black olives (40%). Awareness about the benefical uses of olive as a nutritional diet and functional food has given rise to world wide consumption of olive and its products. Different parts of olive tree and their uses had made it a hotspot for researchers, all its seeds, fruits, branches, leaf, roots, stem, none lacks any pharmacological activity.

Keywords: Olive, Antidiabetic, Cardiotonic, Antihypertensive, Antioxidant, Antidyslipidemia, Anticarcinogenic, olive cake.