MORINDA CITRIFOLIA IS A PROMISING MEDICINAL PLANT RAW MATERIAL FOR THE PRODUCTION OF HERBAL REMEDIES (original) (raw)
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Traditional medical practitioners in Hawaii and Polynesia have used Morinda citrifolia L. (Noni) for centuries to cure or prevent varieties of illnesses. The popularity of M. citrifolia as a dietary supplement, a food functional ingredient, or as a natural health enhancer is increasing throughout the world. M. citrifolia contains phytochemicals that own antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, antitumor, anthelminthic, analgesic, hypotensive, anti-inflammatory and immune enhancing effects. Moreover, the increasing vogue of M. citrifolia has attracted industries to employ it as a part of various products and for wide applications such as a natural source of medicines and chemical reagents as well as a green insecticidal. The wide spread of M. citrifolia in tropical climate of the globe, from USA to Brazil reaching to Tahiti, Malaysia and Australia, contributed in enriching its uses and potentials due to the variation in harvest locations. M. citrifolia parts including fruits, seeds, barks, leaves, and flowers are utilized on their own for individual nutritional and therapeutical values, however, the fruit is considered to contain the most valuable chemical compounds. This review discusses in details the industrial uses and the pharmacological activities of M. citrifolia fruit, seed, leaf and root, along with their isolated phytochemical compounds, through describing the conducted in vitro and in vivo studies as well as clinical data.
Morinda citrifolia Linn Rubiaceae also called as 'noni' is being used for many centuries as traditional medicine by Polynesians for over 2000 years. Morinda citrifolia is an evergreen shrub that originated in Southeast Asia and has been naturalized in many other regions around the world. Various communities throughout the world consume the fruit and leaves of this traditional medicinal plant for its versatile therapeutic nature. The fruit of this plant has a strong butyric acid smell and a cheesy flavor due to the presence of carboxylic acid, where as the leaves and roots are meant for many therapeutic processes and is also used as dyes. Morinda citrifolia is found to have a broad range of therapeutic effects like antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal, antitumor, anthelmintics, analgesic, hypotensive, anti-inflammatory, immune enhancing effect etc.; hence, the juice obtained from ripe and unripe fruit seems to be a more recent innovation that has been commercially exploited to a greater extent in recent times. Therefore this review will briefly investigate on the nutritional and therapeutic values of Morinda citrifolia.
EXTRACTION AND PRELIMINARY PHYTOCHEMICAL SCREENING OF ACTIVE COMPOUNDS IN MORINDA CITRIFOLIA FRUIT
The study was designed to investigate the phytochemical screening of three different extract of Morinda citrifolia Linn Rubiaceae. The crude extracts obtained from the fruit of Morinda citrifolia in different solvents ethanol, methanol and aqueous extract were subjected to phytochemical study. Phytochemical studies indicated that Morinda citrifolia contained a broad spectrum of secondary metabolites. Alkaloids, saponins and reducing sugar were predominantly found in all the three tested extracts followed by steroid, phenol, tannin and terpenoids. Likewise cardiac glycoside, carbohydrate and flavanoids were found in all the tested solvents and aqueous extract of the fruit. Protein is found in aqueous and ethanol extract and it is absent in methanol extract. Resin, anthraquinone, phylobatannin were not found in any of the extracts of Morinda citrifolia fruit. The present study clearly demonstrates the extraction and phytochemical screening of Morinda citrifolia fruit.
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Medicinal plants not only supplement or replace the frequently insufficiently available modern medical treatments but also improve the local population's health and security. As a result, these plants are essential to daily life and have strong ties to a wide range of social, cultural, and economic events related to birth, growth, aging, illness, and death. The formulation of Morinda citrifolia and Costus afer undergoing phytochemical screening in methanol extract. The phytoconstituents discovered in the formulation were tannin, terpenoid, flavonoid, alkaloid, cardiac glycoside, glycoside, saponins, etc. The therapeutic value of a medicinal plant is determined by its phytoconstituents, either singly or in combination. Some of the significant phytochemicals with various biological activities include alkaloids, flavonoids, phenolics, tannins, saponins, steroids, glycosides, terpenes, etc. The identification of the phytochemicals can be used to predict the pharmacological activity ...
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