Abstract

COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW ON PHYTOPHARMACOLOGICAL POTENTIAL OF INDIGOFERA TINCTORIA

Shubham Bhargava* and Yogesh Sharma

ABSTRACT

Indigofera tinctoria a member of the Fabaceae family known as Nili, Indian indigo etc has been reported for its traditional uses as a medicinal plant. The traditional systems of medicine have used the herbs successfully to treat many diseases. The folklore medicine also advocates the use of herbs for diseases. The presence of potentially active nutrients and their multifunctional properties make Indigofera tinctoria leaves, root, bark, and stem perfect candidates for the production of phytopharmaceutical products. So having this in mind this review article focuses on collecting the documentation of all the research work that is performed on Indigofera tinctoria and is the segregation of the pharmacology, chemistry and traditional claims of the activities that are attributed to the plant.

Keywords: Indigofera tinctoria, Medicinal plant, Traditional, Nili.