A Study on Phytochemical and Pharmacological activity of Terminalia arjuna: A Review

Abstract

The demand for the natural drugs obtained from plant source have been ever increasing due to its negligible side effects. Arjuna scientifically known as Terminalia arjuna belongs to family Combretaceae. Arjuna finds its place in many indigenous systems of medicines like Ayurveda. Cardiovascular diseases have been a major source of death world wide, since then the evolution of many drugs happened to be the cure for cardiovascular diseases. Arjuna bark is found to be one of the potential herb with maximum cardiotonic properties. Several literature reviews confirms its potentiality. The bark of Arjuna is traditionally used in many Ayurvedic formulations for its cardiotonic, styptic, febrifuge and diuretic activities. Arjuna bark is found to contain many bioactive compounds like Gylcosides, tannins, flavonoids possessing active pharmacological actions specially Hypolipidemic activities and Antioxidant activity. The main aim of the study is to focus on the clinical and experimental studies on cardiovascular activities of Arjuna with reference to its phytochemical compounds.

Potential species for high biomass production and allometric modelling of even-aged native tropical lowland trees of Indonesia

“…Overall, of the selected and sampled tree species, Litsea garciae, Terminalia bellirica, Pterospermum javanicum, Anisoptera marginata, and Cananga odorata produced high biomass accumulation. Both L. garciae and T. bellirica are able to adapt to various type of habitats, which allowed these species to have superior growth (Lim 2011;Kumari et al 2017). These two species achieved greater biomass than Castilla elastica because they had proportionately greater diameter and height growth.…”

“…Terminalia bellirica is another potential biomass producing tree that consistently grows higher than C. elastica. It is able to adapt to a wide variety of habitat types, such as seasonal forest, deciduous-mixed forest and deciduous dried-leaf dipterocarp forest at 2000 m asl (Kumari et al 2017). Terminalia bellirica has been reported to have high carbon sequestration in India (Aggarwal & Chauhan 2014;Dhyani et al 2021).…”