Volume : 9, Issue : 6, JUN 2023

A REVIEW ON ENDANGERED MEDICINAL PLANTS OF RAJASTHAN AND THEIR METABOLOMIC PROFILING

PRIYANKA TOLAMBIYA

Abstract

Rajasthan is the largest state of India in terms of geography. Majority part of this state is dry region called as “Great Indian Desert” which is located at western side of Rajasthan. Oldest mountain range splits the state into two geographical zones-desert at one side and forest belt on the other side. Rajasthan has very diverse flora but several of the area's plants are endangered. The medicinal plant has been annihilated from the last two decades. The indiscriminate use of extract of the plant for its medicinal use unscientific, illegitimate, and carelessly has resulted, its disappearance or at risk of extinction. There are so many endangered medicinal plant cultivated in arid and semi-arid regions of Rajasthan named "Commiphora wightii, Calligonum polygonoides, Chlorophytum borivilianum, Ceropegia odorata, Heliotropium calcareum, Dicliptera abuensis, Strobilanthes halbergii, Withania coagulans etc. Even after the emergence of modern medicine, in urban and rular part of Rajasthan and India plants have been used for medicinal purpose from ancient time. Plant medicine, also known as phyto-therapy. Due to inadequate drugs supply, side effect of synthetic drugs and expensive treatment, traditional medicine continue to be widely practiced at local levels and humans are taking benefits of its as well. Various parts of plant like stem, roots, leaves, flower, seed, and bark are used to combat the disease because plants have antioxidant activity due to various type of secondary metabolites like flavonoids, alkaloids and steroids which are used to inhibit the free radical ions.

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