Abstract

PHYTOPHARMACOLOGICAL POTENTIAL OF WOODFORDIA FRUTICOSA (DHATAKI): A REVIEW

Kapil Jangir* and Nitin Jumnani

ABSTRACT

Woodfordia fruticosa a member of the Lythraceae family known as Dhataki, Dawai etc has been reported for its traditional uses as a medicinal plant. It is also known as herbal medicine or botanical medicine or phytomedicine or herbology and phytotherapy. The folklore medicine also advocates the use of herbs for diseases. The presence of potentially active nutrients and their multifunctional properties make Woodfordia fruticosa flower 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 Woodfordia fruticosa and is the segregation of the pharmacology, chemistry and traditional claims of the activities that are attributed to the plant.

Keywords: Woodfordia fruticosa, Medicinal plant, Traditional, Dhataki, Phytochemistry.