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ABSTRACT:
Medicinal plants have been used as a source of medicine in all cultures therefore it plays an important role in public health, especially in developed and developing countries. Medicinal Plants and herbs have been used as flavor and to conserve food, to treat different health issues and diseases. Biological secondary metabolites produced during secondary metabolism are usually posses higher biological properties and used throughout the globe for various purposes, including treatment of infectious diseases. C. argentea has been widely used in traditional medicine. It induces hyperpyrexia of the liver, hepatic asthenia, heat in blood and used to cure several disorders such as fever, diarrhea, piles, bleeding nose, mouth sores, itching, wounds, jaundice, gonorrhea, and has different pharmacological activity such as immunological activity, cytoprotective, inflammation, antioxidant, haematological, anticancer, antimitotic activity, hepatoprotective, antimetastatic, antioxidant, antibacterial, antifungal, anti-diarrhead activity, gynaecologic disorders, anti-urolithiatic, anti-diabetes, immunomodulatory, growth activity anti-infection, anti-oxidant agent. C. argentea contains different secondary metabolites in which saponins, cyclic-peptides, phenols, and minerals are the main pharmacological active agents and triterpenoid saponins, Cycpeptide and betalains are the promising targets for further studies due to their bioactivities. Proper and systematic study of more promising bioactive chemical class of compounds or individual compounds should be done by using bioactivity-guided isolation strategies. This is one of the plant which does not have any serious side effects or marked toxicity.
KEYWORDS: Medicinal plants, Secondary metabolites, Pharmacological study, C. argentea, Amaranthoideae.
1. INTRODUCTION:
Over centuries and decades, our ancestors used herbal plant or herbal product in different forms as therapeutic which can be traced back for at least 5000 years1. In few decades, development of modern or allopathic medicine has somehow reduced the role of medicinal plants in favour of synthetic drugs. Even now for the discovery of number of modern drug has been based on secondary metabolites of medicinal plants which is used by indigenous people2. According to World Health Organization (WHO) report, about 80% of the world population depends on the natural product of plants, animals, and microorganisms for their health due to minimal side effect and cost effective3. The use of metabolites of different parts of plants for therapeutic is well known in Indian medicine from Vedic Age and Ayurvedic medicines and saved many lives before modern synthetic medicine...