“…The bioactive compounds of the plant are phenols, flavonoids, alkaloids, glycosides, lignins, saponins, tannins, carotenoids, xylosides, cinnamic acid and non-polar lipids (Agrawal et al, 2014;Kaur and Shri, 2015;Sikarwar et al, 2013). It is evident from the previous studies that a C. album extract demonstrated several pharmacological activities, including hepatoprotective (Pal et al, 2011;Vijay and Padmaa, 2011), antibacterial (Amjad and Alizad, 2012;Korcan et al, 2013), spasmolytic and analgesic (Ahmad et al, 2012), antimicrobial and antihelmintic (Nayak et al, 2010), antipruritic and antinociceptive (Dai et al, 2002), anticancer (Ankita and Chauhan, 2012), spermimmobilising (Kumar et al, 2007), antiulcer (Nigam and Paarakh, 2015), anti-inflammatory (Usman et al, 2010) and antioxidant (Kumar and Kumar, 2009) activities. Moreover, it has been widely utilised as a traditional medicinal herb to treat various diseases, including cough, laxative, piles, rheumatism, abdominal pain, throat trouble and diseases of the blood, heart and spleen (Arora et al, 2014;Baldi and Choudhary, 2013;Kritikar and Basu, 1975).…”