Medicinal properties of Terminalia arjuna (Roxb.) Wight & Arn.: A review

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• 作者：Augustine Amalraj ; Sreeraj Gopi ; ^{sreeraj.gopi@plantlipids.com}
• 关键词：Terminalia arjuna ; Medicinal property ; Phytochemistry ; Coronary artery disease ; Triterpenoids
• 刊名：Journal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：7
• 期：1
• 页码：65-78
• 全文大小：1387 K
• 卷排序：7

文摘

Medicinal plants have been a main source of therapeutic agents from ancient time to cure diseases. Terminalia arjuna (Roxb.) Wight & Arn. (T. arjuna) is one of the most accepted and beneficial medicinal plants in indigenous system of medicine for the treatment of various critical diseases. This comprehensive review provides various aspects of its ethnomedical, phytochemical, pharmacognostical, pharmacological and clinical significance to different diseases particularly in cardiovascular conditions. This plant has a good safety outline when used in combination with other conventional drugs. This review highlights various medicinal properties of T. arjuna through different studies such as antioxidant, hypotensive, anti-atherogenic, anti-inflammatory, anti-carcinogenic, anti-mutagenic and gastro-productive effect.