Open AccessZizyphus xylopyrus (Retz.) Willd: a review of its folkloric, phytochemical and pharmacological perspectives
Author(s) -
Anuj Modi,
Shweta Jain,
Vijay Kumar
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
asian pacific journal of tropical disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.208
H-Index - 33
ISSN - 2222-1808
DOI - 10.1016/s2222-1808(14)60408-4
Subject(s) - phytochemical , traditional medicine , medicine , rhamnaceae , biology , botany
Zizyphus xylopyrus (Retz.) Willd (Rhamnaceae) is an ever-green shrub of tremendous medicinal\udimportance, distributed throughout the North-Western India, Pakistan, and China. Various parts\udof plant are used in Ayurvedic and other folk medicine for the treatment of different ailments\udsuch as obesity, diabetes, snake bite, fever, diarrhoea, insomnia and digestive disorders. The\udplant also possesses antisteroidogenic, anticonvulsent, antinociceptive, antiinflammatory,\udantidepressant, antidiarroheal and wound healing activity. Research has been carried out using\uddifferent techniques to support most of these claims. This review is an attempt to compile an upto-date on its folkloric or traditional uses, phytochemical as well as pharmacological properties\udof Zizyphus xylopyrus