Abstract

A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW ON MOMORDICA CHARANTIA

Debayan Bhattacharjee*, Prathibha G. S., Mallikarjun D. P., Megharaj K. V., Manoj A. N., Dhanush C. R., Naveen Kumar M. and Pramod Channammanavar

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Abstract

Plants and herbal remedies have been utilised as medicine since the dawn of humanity. Many of these claims about the usage of various plants in traditional medicine have been validated by research conducted in the previous few decades. Momordica charantia (MC) is widely used as a purgative, anthelmintic, contraceptive, emmenagogue, antimalarial, galactagogue, gout, jaundice, abdominal pain, kidney stone, leprosy, leucorrhoea, piles, pneumonia, psoriasis, rheumatism, fever, and scabies in various systems of traditional medicine. Its utility as an antibacterial and antiviral agent (including against HIV infection), as an anthelmintic, and as an abortifacient has been verified by more than 100 investigations carried out with the use of contemporary technology.

Keywords: Momordica charantia, Antidiabetic activity, anticancer activity, Momordicin, Gliclazide.