Abstract

PHARMACOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES OF BARNYARD MILLETS- A REVIEW

J. Tamil Selvan*, C. Kalaiselvi, C. Jothimanivannan, M. Sakthivel, V. Kalaiyarasan, S. Subashvarma

Abstract

Barnyard millets 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 Barnyard millets got their authentication when tested using different diseasebased pharmacological models taking various plant parts of Barnyard Millets. Our review article focusses to pharmacological activites are anti-nutritional, Immunostimulatory, Anti-oxidant, Hepatoprotective, Hydrogen peroxide-Scavenging Enzyme, Anti-inflammatory, Hypoglycaemic, Hypolipidemic, cytotoxicity, Antibacterial. This article can give potential research areas to explore next, and to formulate new formulation in allopathy and some traditional medicine system.

Keywords: Barnyard millets, Echinochloa frumentacea, Hepatoprotective, Antibacterial.