Algerian J. Nat. Products, 2:3 (2014).
Sanjeet Kumar et al., 2014.
Abstract
Similipal
Biosphere Reserve forest is situated in the district Mayurbhanj, Odisha, enriched
with the different types of vegetation along with aboriginals. These
aboriginals have unique skills in using traditional therapeutic medicines. They
use wild plant and their parts in traditional herbal formulations to cure
different diseases. Trichosanthes
tricuspidata, locally known as Mahakaal is very common to be used as herbal
medicine. Fruits of Mahakaal have sound traditional therapeutic values. It has
been using against asthma, skin infections, muscular pain and killing the head
lice. Phytochemical screening of fruit
extracts revealed the presence of major bioactive compounds such as Tannin, Saponin,
Flavonoids, Phenolic compounds, Terpenoids etc which indicate its sound
pharmacological properties. Antibacterial assessment of fruit extracts also
showed excellent activity against two Gram-positive and three Gram-negative
bacteria. Methanol extracts showed highest zone of inhibition (1.51 cm) against
Streptococcus pyogenes caused skin
infections. The experimental works validate the traditional therapeutic claims
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