PHARMACOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES OF Mucuna pruriens: AN UPDATE
ARSAD ALAM
School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, PIN- 144 411, India.
NAVNEET KHURANA *
School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, PIN- 144 411, India.
NEHA SHARMA
School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, PIN- 144 411, India.
MANISH VYAS
School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, PIN- 144 411, India.
AWANISH MISHRA
School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, PIN- 144 411, India.
TANVEER SINGH
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
ASHISH KUMAR
School of Chemical Engineering and Physical Sciences, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India.
MANISH GUPTA
Mittal School of Business, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, PIN- 144 411, India.
JOGINDER SINGH PANWAR
School of Bioengineering and Biosciences, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Mucuna pruriens Linn. is a leading Indian medicinal plant, which has long been used, in traditional Ayurvedic Indian medicine for diseases including parkinson. This plant has wide pharmacological activities like anti-inflammatory, antidiabetic, antineoplastic, aphrodisiac, antiepileptic, antimicrobial activities etc., A large no studies have been done on the phytochemical constituents of this plant. Many traditional uses like nerve tonic, in rheumatic disorders, for impotency and to promote fertility and it also cures wet dreams, seminal weakness and spermatorrhea, antivenin, as an aphrodisiac, as a emmenagogue, in persistent coughs, as a nervine, indiarrhoea, used in gonorrhea, diabetes, and snakebite whichis obtained from the parts like seed, pods, roots, leaf of the plant.
Keywords: Mucuna pruriens, phytoconstituent, aphrodisiac, hypoglycemic antiparkinsonian, phytochemistry, L-dopa, review, anti-inflammatory.