MOLLUGO CERVIANA (L.) – A REVIEW
*P. L. Rajagopal, K. Aiswarya, K. R. Sreejith, K. Premaletha and S. Aneeshia
Abstract
As per data available over three- quarters of the world population relies
mainly on plants and plant extracts for their health care needs. More
than 30 percentage of the entire plant species, at one time or other were
used for medicinal purpose. It has been estimated, that in developed
countries such as United States, plants drugs constitute as much as 25
percentages of the total drugs, while in fast developing countries such
as India and China the contribution is as much as 80 percentage. The
economic importance of medicinal plants is much more to countries
such as India than to rest of the world. These countries provide two
third of the plants used in modern system of medicine and the health
care systems of rural population depend on indigenous systems of
medicine. In this review an attempt has been made to compile an
update information regarding this particular medicinal plant which would be beneficial for
the researchers in this area.
Keywords: Mollugo cerviana, Pharmacognostical, Phytochemical, Pharmacological.
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