Abstract

PHARMACOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES OF NEOLAMARCKIA CADAMBA – A REVIEW

M. Sakthivel*, C. Kalaiselvi, C. Jothimanivannan, V. Kalaiyarasan, J. Tamilselvan, S. Subash Varma

Abstract

Neolamarckia cadamba 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 N.cadamba 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-diabetic, anti-oxidant, anti-pyretic, anthelmintic, anti-cancer, anti-hyperglycemic, anti-diuretics, laxative, hepetoprotective, anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial, analgesic, antimicrobial and geranyl acetate esterase inhibitory activities. This article can give potential research areas to explore next, and to formulate new formulation in allopathy and some traditional medicine system.

Keywords: Neolamarckia cadamba, Cadamba, Kadam, Anti-cancer, GAE inhibitory activity.