European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

A MARVELLOUS PLANT- COCCINIA INDICA

Priyanka Tailwal*

ABSTRACT

Plants are admirable source of medicine. Various literatures mentioned the use of plants in the curing of many disease. The constituents present in plants like flavonoids and phenolic compounds are found to exhibit diverse biological properties. Now-a–days, use of herbal medicine is increasing in developing countries, One of them is Coccinia indica (family-Cucurbitaceae) generally known as kundru/kanduri in Hindi and ivy gourd/little gourd in English. It is a quickly growing perennial climber. It is a plant that found in climate that is warm and humid. The whole plant Plant of Coccinia indica having various pharmacological activities like antioxidant, analgesic, antidiabetic, antipyretic, Hypoglycemic, antiinflammatory, antiulcer, anticancer, antimalarial, antibacterial, hepatoprotective etc. This present review impart a requisite information on Coccinia indica, chemical constituents and pharmacological activities with respect to its morphological characters.

Keywords: Coccinia indica, chemical constituents, Morphological characterstics and Pharmacological activities.