Indian Journal of Natural Products and Resources Vol. 2(3), September 2011, pp. 286-291

Medicinal uses and biological activities of speciosa Sweet (Hawaiian Baby Woodrose)  An Overview Ancy Joseph*, Samuel Mathew, Baby P Skaria and E C Sheeja Aromatic and Medicinal Research Station (Kerala Agricultural University), Odakkali, Asamannoor Post-683 549 Ernakulam District, Kerala, India

Received 2 June 2010; Accepted 16 November 2010

Argyreia speciosa Sweet (Family  ) is an important ‘rasayana’ herb used extensively as an adaptogen in the Ayurvedic system of medicine. It is commonly known as Hawaiian Baby Woodrose, Elephant creeper or Woolly morning glow in English and in Sanskrit, it is called as Vridhadaraka meaning ‘anti-aging’. It is a large climber growing throughout India. It has been assigned various medicinal properties by Ayurvedic Materia Medica. The root is regarded as an alternative tonic and used in cases of rheumatism and neurological disorders. A wide range of phytochemicals has been isolated from the and possesses various traditional and tribal uses for cure of human ailments. Pharmacological activities such as anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-rheumatic, immunomodulatory, adaptogenic and hepatoprotective have also been reported. Adverse side effects have made the use of many modern medicines limited and it is worthwhile to explore the possibility of this drug for the treatment of liver, rhueumatic and neurological complaints. This article reviews studies on medicinal uses on this important herb.

Keywords: Argyreia speciosa, , Antimicrobial, Antioxidant, Adaptogenic, Elephant creeper, Hawaiian Baby Woodrose; Immunomodulation, Woolly morning glow, Vridhadaraka. IPC code; Int. cl. (2011.01)  A61K 36/39

Introduction with white pubescence. Leaves are alternate, simple Argyreia speciosa Sweet syn. Argyreia nervosa and long petioled, 5-15 cm long. The leaf blade is (Burm. f.) Bojer. of Convolvulaceae family commonly fairly large, 20-30 cm in length and 20-25 cm broad, known as Hawaiian Baby Woodrose is widely ovate or broadly ovate-cordate. Flowers are large, distributed in tropical regions of the world. It is seen showy, funnel shaped, tinted purple or pale to deep throughout India up to an altitude of 500 m and grown rose, regular, sub capitate, with short pedicels in as an ornamental plant in gardens because of its green axillary bracteate cymes borne on stout, whitish and foliage and rose purple flowers. The plant is common tomentose peduncles. Fruits are yellowish brown, in Bengal, Assam, Orissa, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, smooth globose, indehiscent and irregularly Karnataka and Kerala. It is generally found growing in crumbling berries, 1.2-1.8 cm in diam. containing slightly moist localities like river banks, edges of lakes 2 or 4 seeds embedded in a mealy pulp (Plate 1). etc. and as undergrowth in semidecidous forests1. Roots and leaves are the official parts. It can be Some people consider Ipomoea petaloidea Choisy propagated through stem cuttings (which root easily) or Ipomoea biloba Forssk. as Vidhara or and also by seeds2. Vriddhadaruka2. However, A. speciosa is equated as Vridhadaraka in the Indian Materia Medica. It is an Phytochemical constituents important ingredient of various formulations like A variety of chemicals belonging to the classes Vriddhadarukasma churna, Keshara paka, , lipids, flavonoids, steroids and Amritabhallataka, Mahakamaeshwara modaka, triterpenoids have been isolated from the plant2,3. Vriddhadarukadyasama ghrita and Abhadi churna2. Ergoline alkaloids (0.5 to 0.9%) such as It is a twining woody climber, reaching up to 10 m , , -α-hydroxy or more in height. Young shoots are densely covered ethyl amide and iso-lysergic acid-α-hydroxy ethyl ______4,5 *Correspondent author: amide , , -I, chanoclavine-II, E mail: [email protected], [email protected] racemic chanoclavine II, , , JOSEPH et al.: MEDICINAL AND BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES OF ARGYREIA SPECIOSA 287

reported from the plant9. A steroidal glycoside, (24R)-ergost-5-en-11-oxo-3β-ol-α-D-glucopyranoside, designated as argyroside has also been isolated from the seeds10. The seed has hallucinogenic effects. The principal psychoactive constituent, lysergamide (LSA) present in seeds causes psychological reactions and human consumption of seeds can be fatal. LD50 of seed extract is 500 mg/kg body weight2,11,12. According to Kelkar et al13, the composition of the seed oil is as follows: palmitic (6.7%), oleic (33.2%), stearic (29.1%) behenic (6.6%), linoleic (18.2%) and linolenic acid (6.1%). The C30 straight chain alcohol triacontanol was reported from its seeds14. Batra and Mehta15 reported the presence of about 20 constituents in its seed oil. A few among them are methyl myristoleate (2.5%), methyl myristate (0.1%), methyl palmitate (12.1%), methyl linolenate (6.8%), methyl linoleate (7.6%), methyl oleate (27.5%), methyl stearate (5.6%), methyl sterate (3.4%), methyl nonadecanoate (0.7%), methyl eicosenoate (1.2%), methyl eicosanoate (1.3%) and methyl behenate (0.3%). Lauric, myristic and arachidic acids were also reported in trace quantities from the seeds16. Tetradecanyl palmitate and a disubstituted tetrahydrofuran 5, 8 oxidotetracosan-10-one were identified from the roots17. The roots also contain hexadecanyl p-hydroxy cinnamate, stigma steryl p-hydroxy cinnamate and the coumarin scopoletin18. Kaempferol 7-OMe-3-sulfate was also identified from the roots19. A coumarin glucoside isolated from the roots of A. speciosa has been characterized as 6-methoxy coumarin-7-O-α-D-glucopyranoside (mp 208°C) by spectral and chemical studies20. β-Sitosterol, epi-friedelinol and its acetate have been identified from the leaves21,22. Phytochemical investigation of leaves has also yielded quercetin and kaempferol23 and flavone glycosides, kaempferol 3-O-L-rhamnopyranoside, 7,8,3′,4′,5′-penta hydroxy flavone 5-O-α-L-rhamnopyranoside and 7,8,3′,4′,5′- penta hydroxy flavone 5-O-β-D-glucopyranoside24.

Plate 1  Argyreia speciosa: a-One year old plant; b-20 year old Biological activities plant; c-Plant in flower; d-Rooted stem cuttings. Many bioactivities such as antiulcer, antitumour, lysergene, , isolysergol, molliclavine, antidiabetic, hypoglycemic, hypotensive, spasmolytic, , , iso-setoclavine, , antifilarial, antimicrobial and CNS depressant were isoergine6 were isolated from the seed. The seeds also reported for different plant parts25. Antiviral, contain caffeic acid and ethyl ester ethyl caffeinate7. antibacterial, antifungal, antifertility, diuretic, They are reported to be a rich source of protein8. The anabolic-cum-androgen like activity and aphrodisiac free amino acids, viz. lysine and lutein are also activities were also reported2. 288 INDIAN J NAT PROD RESOUR, SEPTEMBER 2011

The root is acrid, bitter, thermogenic, sweet, which one was identified as ergometrine7. The seeds alterative, emollient, digestive, aperient, purgative, are misused as a hallucinogenic drug. Toxic psychosis carminative, aphrodisiac, nervine, alterative, diuretic, with hallucinations, disturbances of orientation and tonic, antigonorrhoeic, intellect promoting, anti- psychomotoric agitation and anxiety after the intake inflammatory and antirheumatic26-28. It is useful in of seed is reported. The (psycho) pharmacological anorexia, loss of appetite, dyspepsia, flatulence, colic, effect was due to the presence of alkaloids, chronic ulcer, ascites, haemorrhoids, hemiplegia, lysergacidamide, lysergacidethylamide and their nervous weakness, neuralgic pains, cerebral disorders, isomers structurally related to lysergic acid synovitis and general debility. Roots act as a diethylamide (LSD). It caused psychic effects very cardiotonic and hence useful in cardiac debility. It different from those of LSD but similar to the effects possesses emaciation properties due to which it is of scopolamine37. used in obesity. It is also prescribed for leucorrhoea, diabetes mellitus, infected wounds, syphilis, cough, Tribal medicine bronchitis, pharyngitis and pulmonary tuberculosis2,28. Lodhas use the dried root powder with country The root is used in gleet, gonorrhoea, strangury and liquor (3:1) in the treatment of gonorrhoea and take chronic ulcers in Yunani system of medicine. In the root powder with cow’s milk (2:1) as cure for synovitis, the powdered root is given with milk2. painful discharge of urine. Santals apply abaxial side Methanol, benzene, chloroform and petroleum ether of the leaf on boils for suppuration. Oraons use fresh extracts of the root were found non toxic in the dose leaf juice with Karanja (Pongamia pinnata Pierre) range of 100-750 mg/kg i.p. as observed during 72 h seed oil as cure for obesity and excessive after administration2. accumulation of fat in the body. Some other ethnic The leaves are extensively used all over India for communities give the plant extract to syphilitic the treatment of ulcers, boils, carbuncles and patients and apply young leaf paste on small pox and 26 give root infusion with goat milk (3:1) to male tumours . The leaf is collected in the folded stage 38 before opening and used freshly in Maharashtra; patients in the treatment of sexual disorders . In Lakhimpur, the tuber in the form of a paste is applied elsewhere the mature leaves are used. When leaf is 3 applied with the ventral surface in contact with the externally in abscess of stomach . The Palliyar tribes of Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu use roots for cure of body and bandaged, the boil, carbuncle or tumour 39 regress and disappear29. The leaves covered by a thick gastrointestinal diseases . layer of silky hairs on the under surface afford a kind Pharmacological studies of natural impermeable piline which is used as a maturant by the natives in Bengal30. The white under Sexual disorders In a clinical trial involving male patients suffering surface of the leaf promote maturation of boils and act 28 from male sexual disorders, ‘Fortege’, an indigenous as a rubefacient in skin diseases . The leaves are drug that contains A. speciosa as one of the main emollient, vesicant, antiphlogistic and are used as 3,28,31 ingredients was found beneficial in conditions like local stimulant and rubefacient . The leaves erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation, hasten maturation, suppuration and are absorptive; spermatorrhoea and functional impotence with no hence externally applied as emollient poultices for toxic effect32. Another drug ‘Spemen’ consisting of boils, swellings, carbuncles, foul ulcers, wounds and several ingredients of plant materials including externally in skin diseases. It is also externally used A. speciosa exhibited anabolic cum androgen like for ring worm infections and eczema. It is mixed with 40 2,28 activity in mice . vinegar and the sap is rubbed to reduce obesity .

The leaves contain a mixture of three phytosterolins Gastric ulceration which exhibit hypoglycemic and CNS depressant The ethanolic extract (50% v/v) of the flower of activities. The leaves are reported to be effective in A. speciosa (100-200 mg/kg) when administered 4,32,33 diabetes . orally, twice daily for five days showed dose Seed is CVS (cardio-vascular system) active and dependent ulcer protective effect. A dose of spasmolytic3, its extract showed hypotensive and 150 mg/kg given for ten days, twice daily showed spasmolytic properties34-36. The hypotensive activity healing effect against acetic acid (50%) induced ulcer was due to a fraction containing three alcohols of index with decreased perforations41. JOSEPH et al.: MEDICINAL AND BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES OF ARGYREIA SPECIOSA 289

Anti-inflammatory and anti-arthritic Immunomodulatory It is used in the indigenous systems of medicine for The investigation by Gokhale et al47 revealed that the treatment of inflammatory conditions. The roots possess immunomodulatory activity. Oral ethanolic extract of roots was found to significantly administration of ethanolic extract at doses of 50, 100 inhibit paw edema induced by carrageenan and 200 mg/kg in mice, dose-dependently potentiated and Freud’s complete adjuvant at doses of the delayed-type hypersensitivity reaction induced 50-200 mg/kg42. In another study Kartik et al43 both by sheep red blood cells and oxazolone. It evaluated anti-inflammatory activity of 50% ethanolic significantly enhanced the production of circulating extract of A. speciosa using Sprague-Dawley rats antibody titre in mice. Chronic administration of following oral administration in two different doses the ethanolic extract significantly ameliorated the (100 and 200 mg/kg). Inflammation was induced total white blood cell count and also restored using 1% carrageenan. The extract significantly the myelosuppressive effects induced by showed anti-inflammatory activity at 3 hours. cyclophosphamide.

Antimicrobial and phytotoxicity Nootropic The seed oil exhibited in vitro antibacterial and Aqueous extract of roots at doses of 100 and antifungal activity44. It showed antiseptic activity 200 mg/kg significantly improved memory and against several Gram positive and Gram negative successfully reversed amnesia induced by diazepam, bacteria and phytopathogenic fungi15. Hexadecanyl scopolamine and natural aging and also reduced p-hydroxycinnamate and scopoletin isolated from acetyl cholinesterase level in brain homogenate roots showed high antifungal activity against indicating its potential in attenuating learning and Alternaria alternata. The phytotoxicity in terms of memory deficits especially in aged mice48. root growth inhibition of germinating wheat seeds was observed in both test materials. At 250 ppm Adaptogenic and antioxidant concentration, the inhibition caused by hexadecanyl Ethanol extract and ethyl acetate extract of roots at p-hydroxycinnamate was 79.42% and by scopoletin, doses of 200 and 400 mg/kg showed strong in vivo 91.57%. At high concentrations (1000 ppm) the root antioxidant activity as revealed by decrease in levels 46 of super oxide dismutase (SOD), catalase and growth of wheat was completely inhibited . 49 peroxidase activity in liver . Ethanol fraction Habbu et al46 studied antimicrobial activity of (100 and 200 mg/kg p.o.) and quercetin and flavonoid sulphates and different fractions of kaempferol (25 mg/kg p.o.) from A. speciosa root A. speciosa root against bacteria, fungi and were found to be capable of increasing the capacity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37 Rv sensitive strain tolerate non-specific stress in experimental mice, as by in vitro and in vivo assays. Flavonoid sulphates revealed by restoration of large number of parameters such as quercetin 3'7 di-O methyl 3-sulphate and in the stress models studied. The tested doses of kaempferol 7-O methyl 3-sulphate and ethyl acetate ethanol fraction and isolated flavonoids were able to fraction inhibited the growth of produce significant effects in normalizing altered M. tuberculosis Rv sensitive strain at MIC serum biochemical parameters and severity of ulcer in values 25 and 50 µg/ml, respectively. Ethanolic both acute and chronic stress models. Antistress fraction showed significant inhibition of Gram activity was attributed partly to free radical positive organisms with a MIC of 31.25 µg/ml. More scavenging activity50. inhibition was observed with a less MIC (2 µg/ml) for flavonoid sulphates against Klebsiella pneumoniae, a Anticonvulsant Gram negative organism and it is almost comparable The root is regarded as an alternative tonic and with the standards. Chloroform fraction alone useful in the diseases of nervous system. To confirm exhibited significant antifungal activity with a MIC of the veracity of the claim, Vyawahare and Bodhankar51 100 µg/ml. A synergistic effect between flavonoid evaluated the anticonvulsant effect of the root extract. sulphates and commercially available antitubercular The mice were pretreated with different doses of drugs was also reported. Ethyl acetate fraction and extract (100, 200, 400 mg/kg) for 10 days and then, flavonoid sulphates exhibited least cellular toxicity to subjected to either pentylenetetrazole (80 mg/kg) or erythrocytes as compared to chloramphenicol. maximal electroshock seizures (50 mA, 0.2 s) 290 INDIAN J NAT PROD RESOUR, SEPTEMBER 2011

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