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European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341894994 A Review on Pharmacological Activities of Aristolochia Species Article · June 2020 CITATIONS READS 6 328 3 authors: Subbiah Latha Palanisamy Selvamani Anna University, Chennai Anna University, BIT Campus, Tiruchirappalli 107 PUBLICATIONS 510 CITATIONS 125 PUBLICATIONS 634 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE SEE PROFILE Dhivya Sundaram Anna University of Technology, Tiruchirappalli 6 PUBLICATIONS 13 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE Some of the authors of this publication are also working on these related projects: Natural Polymers View project All content following this page was uploaded by Palanisamy Selvamani on 15 July 2020. The user has requested enhancement of the downloaded file. ejbps, 2015, Volume 2, Issue 5, 160-167. Review Article SJIF Impact Factor 2.062 ISSN 2349-8870 Latha et al. European European Journal Journal of Biomedical of Biomedical and Pharmac eutical Sciences Volume: 2 AND Issue: 5 Pharmaceutical sciences 160-167 http://www.ejbps.com Year: 2015 A REVIEW ON PHARMACOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES OF ARISTOLOCHIA SPECIES S. Latha*, P. Selvamani, P. S. Dhivya and R. Benaseer Begam Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Anna University, BIT Campus, Tiruchirappalli– 24, Tamil Nadu, India. Article Received on 27/07/2015 Article Revised on 18/08/2015 Article Accepted on 09/09/2015 *Correspondence for ABSTRACT Author Aristolochia is a significant genus in the family of Aristolochiaceae. S. Latha The genus Aristolochia includes about 400 species of herbaceous Department of perennials, under shrubs or shrubs bearing essential oils and is Pharmaceutical Technology, Anna University, BIT extensive across Tropical Asia, Africa and South America. Campus, Tiruchirappalli–24, Aristolochia species has been used widely in the traditional Chinese Tamil Nadu, India. medicine. Its miscellaneous biological functions include hypertension relief, leukocyte enhancement, rheumatism relief, edema therapy, as well as analgesic and diuretic effects. Various Aristolochia species have been used in herbal medicines since ancient times for treatment of snakebite, festering wounds, and tumors, and they remain in use particularly in Chinese herbal medicine. KEYWORDS: Aristolochia, Pharmacological activities, Traditional medicine, Herbal medicine. 1. INTRODUCTION Aristolochia belongs to the family Aristolochiaceae. In the indigenous system of medicine, the plant was used for the treatment of skin diseases, inflammation and purgative. Root extract was accounted to have anti bacterial activity. A perennial climber shrub with woody base stocks. Leaves simple, alternate, entire, with undulate margins, acute; flowers greenish white, in auxiliary cymes; fruits rounded oblong, 6 chambered contain numerous winged compressed seeds.[1] www.ejbps.com 160 Latha et al. European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences The Aristolochiaceae are magnoliids, which belongs to the category of angiosperms and it doesn’t belong to the large categories of monocots or eudicots. As per the classification of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, family Aristolochiaceae is placed in the order piperales. Aristolochia species (Aristolochiaceae) plants are used in all parts of the world for various ailments based on their anecdotal reports. In this review our main objective is to systematically access the widespread local and traditional uses of Aristolochia species. Species of Aristolochia are used medicinally in many regions of the world based on ethnopharmacological information and which also poses some risk based on public health perspective. A systematic assessment of the content of aristolochic acids in the most widely used species is needed to evaluate whether their uses pose a potential health risk. Aristolochia species have been associated with nephropathy mainly in china and European countries, and it is important to examine whether nephropathy occurs in other parts of the world also. The use of species of Aristolochia is reported to be commonly used in traditional medicine in India and Central America. 2. PHARMACOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES PHARMACOLOGICAL S.NO BOTONICAL NAME AUTHORS Ref. ACTIVITY TESTED Antiplasmodial activity Antifeedant activities 1 Aristolochia albida M. E. Khan,et al., 2012 [2] Prophylactic activity Anti-malaria activity Payal chawla. Et al., 2013 [3] Anti pyretic activity P.Bharathajothi and T. Bhaaskaran, [4] 2014 Anti allergic activity Payal chawla. Et al.,2013 [3] Payal chawla. Et al,.2013. [3] Anti-inflammatory activity P. Bharathajothi and T. [4] Bhaaskaran, 2014 Anti-arthritis activity Thirumal.M, et al.,2012 [5] 2 Aristolochia bracteolate Antiulcer activity Mokhtar Mohamed Elamin and [6] Antibacterial activity Abdalla Abdelrahim Satti, 2012. P.S. Negi, e al.,2003 [7] Antioxidant properties Antifungal activity Mokhtar Mohamed Elamin and Antiplasmodial activity Abdalla Abdelrahim Satti, 2012 Antimicrobial activity [6] Wound healing activity www.ejbps.com 161 Latha et al. European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences Anti angiogenetic activity Trypansocidal effect Anti implantation Abortifaciant activity Víctor manuel navarro-garcía 3 Aristolochia brevipes Antibacterial activity [8] et.al,2011 Anti-fungal activity 4 aristolochia clematitis Elvira nacsa-farkas, et al,2013 [9] Anti-inflammatory activity 5 Aristolochia cucurbitifolia Antiplatelet activity Tian-shung wu et al.,2000 [10] Antiprotozoal Adelina jim´enez-arellanes, 2011 [11] Aristolochia elegans Antimycobacterial activities 6 Neurotropic activity Zamilpa A et.al.,2014 [12] Antagonist activity 7 Aristolochiae fructus Nephro toxicity Ting zhou et.,al 2011 [13] 8 Aristolochia gigantean Nephrotoxic activity Juliana C et al.,2010 [14] Antimicrobial activity Abortifacient activity Hemlata Sati1 et al., 2011 Anti-implantation activity [15] Interceptive activity Anti-inflammatory, Jessy Elizabeth Mathew et al.,2011 [16] anti-antipruritic Dattatraya C et al.,2014 [17] Mast cell stabilizing activity Rakesh Das et al.,2010 [18] Suji Arivazhagan J.J.And Antidiarrheal activity [19] Vimalastalin R., 2014 Abidemi James Akindele et al., Nephroprotective activity [20] 2014 Antivenom activity Lethal toxicity Edema- forming activity Haemorrhagic activity 9 Aristolochia indica Defibrinogenating activity S. Meenatchisundaram et al.,2009 [21] Procoagulant activity Fibrinolytic activity Phospholipase activity Anti-inflammatory activity Anti-hemorrhagic activity anticoagulant activity Y. K. Gupta, S. S. Peshin [22] Enzyme inhibitory activity Antibacteria Antiparasitic activity Murugan M and Mohan V R., 2012 Antimyotoxic activity [23] Antivenin activity Marina G et al.,2010 [24] Anthelmintic activity Mini et al., 2013 [25] Antitumer activity Masud rana and Khanam., 2002 [26] Antimicrobial activity M. Surendra Kumar, et al.,2011 [27] Antidiabetic activity J. Marlin Cynthia et al.,2012 [28] www.ejbps.com 162 Latha et al. European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences Anti Hyperglycemic Antitumor activity Ghita benzakour1, et al.,2012 [29] 10 Aristolochia longa, Bachir benarba, boumedienne Antifungal activity [30] meddah 2014 11 Aristolochia malmeana Insecticidal activity Gisele B et al.,2008 [31] Antitumor 12 Aristolochia melastoma Insecticidal Cláudio et al.,2012 [32] Nephrotoxic activities 13 Aristolochia pubescens Insecticidal activity Isabele r nascimento et al.,2003 [33] 14 Aristolochia repens Anti-microbial, Onawumi et al.,2014 [34] Aristolochia ringens Anticancer activity Abidemi james akindele et al.,2014 [20] 15 Antiinflammatory activity Aigbe flora ruth et al.,2014 [35] Antiproliferative Activity Cytotoxic activity Abhijit and jitendra nath.,2012 [36] Analgesic activity Antimicrobial activity Aristolochia tagala Antifertility activity 16 Anti-infective Kalaiarasi v,et al.,2013 anti-bacterial [37] Anti-microbial activity Analgesic and Sundari, S.K.K.et al.,1976 antimicrobial activity Sundari, S.K.K.et al.,1976 [38] Antifungal activity Sundari, S.K.K.et al.,1976 3. CONCLUSION Species of Aristolochia were widely distributed in all parts of the world and were utilized traditionally for their various medicinal uses. This review of literature including pharmacological investigations on Aristolochia species has covered 16 plants Aristolochiaceae. Which were reported to contain aristolochic acids and esters, aristolactams, aporphines, protoberberines, isoquinolines, benzylisoquinolines, amides, flavonoids, lignans, biphenyl ethers, coumarins, tetralones, terpenoids, benzenoids, steroids, and others with extensive physiological activities. Currently the research are under the nephrotoxic properties of Aristolochia species. Aristolochic acids are responsible for a dreadful disease of Chinese herb nephropathy recognized in 1992. This review will help researchers and scientists in locating the detailed information on Aristolochia species and address the Clinical significance of these plants that can be evolved by studying their active phytoconstituients, toxicity studies and further mechanistic studies are to be assessed and explored. 4. CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT www.ejbps.com 163 Latha et al. European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences We declare that we have no conflict of interest 5. REFERENCES 1. Sawarkar HA, Singh MK, Pandey AK, Biswas D. In vitro anthelmintic activity of ficus bengalhensis, ficus caria and ficus religiosa a comparative anthelmintic activity, International Journal of Pharma Tech Research 2011; 3(1): 152-153. 2. M. E. Khan, I. Toma, D. Y. Shingu and C.H.
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