Abstract

CURATIVE ASPECTS OF AEGLE MARMELOS (BAEL) IN DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY

Shaili Yadav, Neeti Sharma and Jyoti Srivastava*

ABSTRACT

Ayurveda is supposed to add a step on to the curative aspects of many diseases and provides appropriate therapies continually. Thousands of herbal and traditional compounds are being screened worldwide to validate their use as drugs in medicinal field. Herbal decoctions and medicines consisting of multiple herbs each possessing tremendous potential for cure are commonly used in ayurveda. Aegle marmelos, a medicinal plant that also has been used as an herbal medicine for the management and cure of many more health problems in ayurvedic systems of medicine is widely used in world at significant level. All parts of this tree - stem, bark, root, leaf and fruit have medicinal virtues and have been used as medicine for a long time. The objective of this review is to summarize various healing and curative properties of Aegle mermelos and its chemical compounds to achieve better therapeutic response in ayurveda (traditional) and medicinal (drug) bioavailability.

Keywords: Aegle marmelos, ayurveda (traditional) and medicinal (drug) bioavailability.