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January to March 2024 Article ID: NSS8569 Impact Factor:7.60 Cite Score:4717 Download: 95 DOI: https://doi.org/ View PDf
Anti-Inflammatory Activities of Some Medicinal Plants With Special Reference Euphorbia tithymaloides(L.).Luffacylindrica(M. Roem.).Cocciniagrandis(L.) Voigt
Shailendra Sisodiya
Govt. P.G College, Sendhwa Dist. Badwani (M.P.)Rajesh Kumar Tengriya
Govt. Motilal Vigyan Mahavidyalaya, Bhopal (M.P.)
Abstract: Various nonsteroidal
anti-inflammatory drugs have been shown to reduce pain and inflammation by
blocking the metabolism of arachidonic acid by isoform of cyclooxygenase
enzyme, thereby reducing the production of prostaglandin. Sadly, there are many
side effects associated with the administration of nonsteroidal
anti-inflammatory drugs. However, there are medicinal plants with
anti-inflammatory therapeutic effects with low or no side effects. The Afri-can
continent is richly endowed with diverse medicinal plants with
anti-inflammatory activities that have been shown to be effective in the
treatment of inflammatory conditions in traditional medicine. Interestingly, scientists
have examined some of these African medicinal plants and documented their
biological and therapeutic activities. Unfortunately, medicinal plants from
different countries in Africa with anti-inflammatory properties have not been
documented in a single review paper. It is important to document the
ethnobotanical knowledge and applications of anti-inflammatory medicinal plants
from selected countries representing different regions of the African
continent. This paper therefore documents anti-inflammatory activities of
various medicinal plants from different geographical regions of Africa with the
aim of presenting the diversity of medicinal plants that are of traditional or
therapeutic use in Africa.
Keywords: inflammation,
inflammatory conditions, local plants, plant potentials.