PHYTOCHEMICAL EVALUATION AND PHARMACOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES OF Thunbergia species - A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW

Medicinal plants have been used from the ancient time to prevent and treat various health problems.Plants are still an independent source of medication in the contemporary health care delivery system.Their role is two-fold in the development of medicines and served as a natural blue print for the development of new drug.As some synthetic drugs display several limitations, including side effects and costs, medicinal plants and their phytochemical compounds have been considered and used to treat many diseases.The ethnomedicinal importance of common Thunbergia species, their pharmacological properties and also some bioactive compounds regarding their pharmacological properties has been reported in this review.Thunbergia is a category of flowering plants that appertain to the Acanthaceae family, native to tropical provinces of Africa, Madagascar, Australia, and South Asia.Remarkable kinds of Thunbergia are Thunbergia laurifolia, Thunbergia coccinea, Thunbergia fragrans, Thunbergia erecta, Thunbergia grandiflora, Thunbergia mysorensis, Thunbergia annua, Thunbergia battiscombei, Thunbergia gregorii, and many more which have numerous medicinal attributes.The variable ethnomedicinal applicability encapsulates the numerous healings and biological characteristics of Thunbergia, have reviewed scientifically by the study on its phytochemicals, and therapeutic features in this study.