Abstract

PHARMACOGNOSTICAL STUDIES AND PHARMACOLOGCAL ACTIVITIES OF BETA VULGARIS - REVIEW

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

Abstract

Beta vulgaris 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 Beta vulgaris got their authentication when tested using different diseasebased pharmacological models taking various extracts of roots, leaves, and root oil as test samples. Our review article focusses to pharmacological activites are antioxidant, antibacterial and anticancer activities, anti-diuretics, hepetoprotective, hemopoietic activity, antihypertensive activity, phase II enzyme-inducing and antioxidant activities, antimicrobial and immunomodulatory activities, antimycotoxigenic activity, antidiabetic activity. This article can give potential research areas to explore next, and to formulate new formulation in allopathy and some traditional medicine system.

Keywords: Beta vulgaris, Amaranthaceae, Antidiuretics activity, Phase II enzyme inducing, Antidiabetic activity, antimicrobial.