✔ The Ayurveda system of medicine described for significant anti-cancer,anti-tumor, and anti-inflammatory action.
📌The popular name is Leadwort, several names in different parts of the world:
Zahnakraut... German
Sanza...... Swahili
Mosikomabe... Tawana
Ensain... Arabia
Chitra... India
📌Plumbago zeylanica is a perennial dicot herb, simple, alternate, ovate leaves.
✔ Terminal raceme-type inflorescence with white color flowers, fruits oblong,five-furrowed capsules with a single seed.
📌Roots are mainly important and potential therapeutic properties of the plant parts.
✔ They are straight, smooth, branched, light-yellow when fresh and become reddish-brown on drying and strong odor with the acrid and bitter taste
📌Plumbago zeylanica consisted of several diversified compounds like alkaloids, tannins, phenolic, and steroids.
Pubmabgin is the principle active yellow compound and a wide range of medicinal properties.
📌Traditionally, Ethanopharamacologicaly and Pharmacologically used to like anti-fertility anti-estrogen, anti-arthritis, anti-inflammatory activities and kill to intestinal parasites.