Aristolochia bracteolate is extensively in traditional Chinese medicine.
✔ It is
an evergreen, deciduous woody vines, and herbaceous perennials herb.
✔ Leave
are simple, alternative, cordite dark purple color.
✔
Flowers greenish-white, auxiliary cymes, fruits rounded, oblong with numerous
winged compressed seeds.
📌Traditionally a very important medicinal plant in the indigenous system of medicine.
✔ It is
used as a gastric stimulant,anti-cancer,anti-inflammatory,anti-dysentery,
anti-snakebites, anti-pyretic, purgative, anti-fungal, anti-bacterial,anti-ulcer, ant and gonorrhea,
anti-plasmodial.
📌Ethanomedicaly to used for leprosy, allergic disorder, worms,
fever, mosquito repellent, amenorrhoea, eczema, and emmenagogue.
PharmacologicalActivities:Anti-pyretic,anti-allergic,antiinflammation,antiarthritis,anti-ulcer,
anti-bacterial,anti-fungal, anti-plasmodial anti-angiogenesis,
anti-implantation, anti-oxidants, and abortifacient.
Phytochemicalconstituents:AristolochiaAcid,stearicLignoceric,cerotic,oleic,linoleic,palmitic,amides, biphenyls ethers, coumarins, tetralones, and
benzenoids.
📌Aristolochia acid is a
chief active principle compound of the drug.
✔ It is a bitter and optically inactive compound, acts as
an antifeedant, male sterilant some insects, and toxic to house flies.
