PHARMACOLOGICAL AND HEALTH BENEFITS OF MEDICINAL PLANTS

Exploration of Medicinal plants for health benefits has wide literature. In the current short review, we have discussed the pharmacological properties with selected Medicinal plants Turmeric, Lufa, Broccoli, Green cress, Moringa, Tulsi and neem. They possess antioxidant, anitinflamatory, antidiabetic, hepato and cardioprotective as well as anticancerous properties. Therapeutic plants have been utilized for quite a long time, and various societies still depend on indigenous therapeutic plants for their essential human services needs. The different parts of these plants including leaves, flowers, stems and roots, etc have different constituents having different medicinal values. It gives brief idea about the medicinal values of the plants.