European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

A CRITICAL REVIEW OFFLACOURTIA JANGOMAS (LOUR.) RAEUSCH: A RARE FRUIT TREE OF GORAKHPUR DIVISION

*Dr. Tulika Mishra and Aishwarya Rai

ABSTRACT

The current investigation performed with the objective of finding the scientific reason for health benefits of Flacourtia jangomas (Lour.) Raeusch, simultaneously evaluating the antioxidant and antimicrobial activity of ethanol, methanol, and chloroform extracts. The aim of the review is to present an updated and comprehensive overview of ethnomedicinal significance, phytochemical and pharmacological aspects of F. jangomas to highlight its ethnopharmacological uses and to explore its therapeutic potentials thereby providing a basis for future research. The potent antioxidant, antimicrobial, and anti-inflammatory extracts can be used for producing a novel ointment formulation, functional food or nutraceutical, in combination. The qualitative analysis of antioxidant activity has been explained by reducing power assay and DPPH assay and antimicrobial activity is reported by agar diffusion method and minimum inhibitory concentration of crude extract. Further, the bioactive compounds present in different plant parts extracts have been detected by GS-MS analysis and their applications are explained. The result indicates that Flacourtia jangomas possesses significant free radical scavenging and anti-inflammatory activites. GS-MS analysis of the plant revealed the presence of several bioactive compounds. This article is an endeavor to review the ethno-pharmacological, antioxidant, antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties of F. jangomas in nutshell.

Keywords: Ethnomedicine, Pharmacology, Phytochemistry, Anti-inflammatory.