A Comprehensive review on Dichrostachys cinerea

Abstract

For a very long time, the medical plants have been used worldwide to treat human diseases and it serves as a safe source of drugs to cure several diseases and conditions through complementary medicine system. It is a native plant of Indian subcontinent, Africa and North Australia and is known to have significant pharmacological activities. The wide range of pharmacological activities of D.cinerea are due to the presence of different groups of active biological compounds present in it. Traditionally, D.cinerea has been used for the treatment the treatment of many diseases such as headache, toothache, dysentery, leprosy, coughs, syphilis and also as diuretic, anthelmintic, purgative and laxative. Research on the pharmacological, biological isolation of metabolites and biologically active compounds of this plant have already been done worldwide. However, the study to evaluate the complete therapeutic values of this plant still needed to conduct. This paper briefly reviews the various pharmacological properties of D.cinerea that could be useful for further experimental and clinical investigations.