Excoecaria agallocha Linn (Euphrobiaceae) : An overview (original) (raw)

The review is conducted on Excoecaria. Different parts plants like wood, root, leaves, stem and leaves, stem, stem and twigs, twigs and bark, bark, twigs and leaves are studied in this review. The study of this review revealed that the parts of plants like wood, root, leaves, stem and leaves; stem, stem and twigs, twigs and bark, bark, twigs and leaves are isolated by 91 compounds. The following biological activities, which are from the crude extract, are observed as follow anti cancer, antimicrobial, anti bacterial, anti-inflammatory, anti micro fouling, antioxidant, anti-histamine. They release invitro anti bacterial, anti-tumour-promoting and cytotoxicity, anti-reverse transcriptase, human cancer cell and anti HIV. This observation finally found that there are many compounds in wood and more number of biological activities in Leaves. Bark, twigs and leaves are observed as anti HIV. Some other Compounds(1-91).Their Structures from (1-91) are showing Figure-1 along with their names and the Corresponding plant sources.