Multi-functional therapeutic effect of Boerhaavia diffusa: A contemporary review

Abstract

Today’s world is full of different diseases due to our hasty schedule and to cure diseases huge numbers of medicines are consumed every day to control/cure those diseases. Thus, willingly or unwillingly we are forced to store great amount of chemicals which are toxic/harmful in our body. Thus, these stored chemicals create another disease in our body and to cure it another medicine is needed which adds up more toxic chemicals which were already stored. Hence, the uses of natural /herbal medicines are increasing day by day due to their bio-degradable nature. In this context a number of bio-products are in use in India, but the use of Boerhaavia diffusa was not so common in previous decades. Later on numbers of researches had been conducted to examine its therapeutic efficacy as a natural medicine. The chemical present in the plant which makes it as exceptionally useful plant is now been traced out. Now it is regarded as anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, anti-aging, anti-cancerous, anti-apoptotic, anti diabetic compound. In this review, we will try to discuss the multi-functional application of the plant and also we will try to summarize the futuristic research on this plant