Abstract

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.