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Review · Volume 6, Issue 12 · pp. 100–106

Ethnobotanical survey of genus Leucas

Surya Narayan Das1, Varanasi Jaganath Patro2, Subas Chandra Dinda3

  1. 1Departments of Pharma-analysis and Quality assurance, Gayatri College of Pharmacy, Jamadarpali, Sambalpur, INDIA.
  2. 2Department of Pharmchemistry, Roland Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Berhampur, INDIA.
  3. 3Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Berhampur University, Berhampur, Odisha, INDIA.

Abstract

Plants of genus Leucas (Lamiaceae) are widely distributed throughout Asia, Africa, and India. The plant is used in traditional medicine to cure many diseases such as cough, cold, diarrhea, and infl ammatory skin disorder. A variety of phytoconstituents have been isolated from the Leucas species, which include lignans, fl avonoids, coumarins, steroids, terpenes, fatty acids, and aliphatic long-chain compounds. Anti-infl ammatory, analgesic, anti-diarrheal, antimicrobial, antioxidant, and insecticidal activities have been reported in the extracts of these plants and their phytoconstituents. An overview of the ethnobotanical, phytochemical, and pharmacological investigations on the Leucas species is presented in this review.

Keywords: Bioactive constituents; ethno medical information; Leucas

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