GENUS Pothos: A REVIEW OF CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS AND BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES

Abstract

Pothos is a genus of flowering plants that belongs to the family Araceae. It plays a vital role in developing countries as folk medicine. Numerous compounds have been reported from Pothos, out of which some compounds have shown prominent bioactivities. The biological studies of this genus reported various activities including antimicrobial, anticancer, antioxidant, antipyretic, anti-diabetes, bronchodilator, burn wound healing, anticariogenic, thrombolytic etc. This review summarizes research carried out on chemical constituents with biological activities of Pothos genus to date.

Antioxidant activity from the endemic aquatic Pothos tener Wall lives in Bantimurung waterfalls

“…Previous study was identified the secondary metabolites in P.tener were flavonoid, phenol and glycosides. (Dutta et al, 2021;Nugraha et al, 2019).…”

“…The varies result of plant metabolites among the crude drugs and the extracts needs confirmation by another separation technique, such as TLC with specific reagents (see Table 3). (Cai, 2014;Dutta et al, 2021;Liu et al, 2019) The TLC result of EE and ME have identified the presence of phenol and flavonoid in P.tener.…”

“…A total of 743 species of Araceae in various habitats including land and water are distributes in many islands like Kalimantan (297 species), Sumatra (159 species), Sulawesi (49 species), Bali and Southeast Nusa (22 species), Java (67 species), Maluku (35 species), and Papua (114 species). (Boyce, 2000;Dutta et al, 2021;Napagoda et al, 2020;Sajeesh et al, 2011).…”

“…It may relate with the preliminary result that P.tenner has terpenoids. From the same genus, P.scandens contains terpenoids which has pharmacological activity, such as hemiterpenes, diterpenes and triterpenes(Cai, 2014;Dutta et al, 2021;Liu et al, 2019). The TLC result of EE and ME have identified the presence of phenol and flavonoid in P.tener.…”

“…It may explain the weak presence of phenol and flavonoid in phytochemical screening and TLC result of P.tener. Several flavones, isoflavones, flavonoid glycosides, have been isolated from P. scandens and P. chinensis(Dutta et al, 2021;Napagoda et al, 2020;Sajeesh et al, 2011). According to Farasad, et al, 2014 the phenol and flavonoid content of P.tener variation in flavonoid content may be due to the variation in physicochemical parameters such as salinity amongst the selected stations.…”