A DETAILS STUDY ON URENA LOBATA

Pharmaceutical science

ABSTRACT The information about traditional medicinal plants must have been accumulated in the course of many centuries but it is our misfortune that proper chemical and pharmacological evaluation of most of these plants have not done till now. Keeping this view, details studies on Urena lobata (Family- Malvaceae) along with phytochemical & pharmacological study have done. It is a very medicinal significant plant as a gift of the nature for living beings. In traditional medicinal system it is used in different troubles as well as it possesses different important pharmacological activities. Urena lobata commonly known as Caesar weed or Congo jute. In India, it is widely available in Andhra Pradesh, southern and some parts of northern regions. Its leaves, roots, stem, and bark have some beneficiary activities for medicinal and purposes such as antioxidant, inflammatory, antimicrobial, ant diarrheal, ant diabetic, and antihyperlipidemic. This plant has the potential to cure many more disease and disorders. The branches, leaves or whole trees are used to treat injuries, bruises, rheumatism, mastitis, and bites. In this study, phytochemical investigation of the n-hexane and ethyl acetate extract of leaves and twigs of Urena lobata L. led to the isolation of β-sitosterol, β-sitosterol3-O-β-D-glucopyranoside,2-acetylamino-3-phenylpropyl2-benzoylamino-3phenylpropanoate,quercetin and trans-tiliroside

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