Premna tomentosa: a Review on its Current Therapeutic and Phytochemical Potential

Abstract

Nature had been the best source of medicines to treat dreadful diseases in human beings and animals. There had been a huge supply of chemicals that serve as leads to produce synthetic and semi synthetic derivatives. There was a lot of research that was focussed on probing and proving the medicinal plants as potential sources of drugs to treat various diseases. Various reviews are published to bring forth the scientific literature concerning the Phytochemistry, pharmacological activities of plants. Premna tomentosa Willd is one of such widely used plants as per ethnopharmacological sources. Thus this review showcases the investigations as evident from the scientific data and literary works that are available of the plant. The plant is rich in flavonoids, tannins, alkaloids and terpenoids with which it exhibits various activities like anti-hyperlipidemic, hepatoprotective, anticancer, anti-oxidant, antibacterial etc. The information given in this work will surely help the researchers to select the area of research according to the available literature.