World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

CROTON BONPLANDIANUM BAILL-A REVIEW ON TRADITIONAL USES, PHYTOCHEMISTRY AND PHARMACOLOGICAL STUDIES

Bimala Tripathy*, S.Satyanarayana, K. Abedulla khan, Bishnu Charana, K Raja

ABSTRACT

Commonly Crotons are well-known foliage plants. From Euphorbiaceae or spurge family, the plant Croton bonplandianum Baill is a heteroicous exotic weed. It is a perdurable herb and normally 30-40 cm in height, with whorled ranches which grows in sandy clay soil, found in all situations, railway lines and roadsides, in open and follow fields in India. Due to the resemblance of the leaves and flower cymes to that of Tulsi, Croton bonplandianum Baill is often called Ban Tulsi (Jungle tulsi). The parts of plant are widely used in traditional system of medicine such as hepatoprotective, swelling of the body, cure against ring worms and skin disease, antihypertensive, antioxidant, wound healing, antifungal, antimicrobial, antidiabetic, antitumor, anticancer, acute constipation, abdominal dropsy, internal abscesses, antifertility, antispasmodic, antiseptic, antidote, analgesic, repellent property against insects, nematicide, anticoronary, anti-inflammatory, larvicidal activity, antihelmentic, this is also used for treatment of cholera, boils, bowel complaints, chicken pox, diarrhoea, dysentry, eye diseases, cold and coughs, epilepsy, gastric disorders, insanity, jaundice, liver complaints, scurvy, sprains, malaria, rheumatism, and so on. This plant is also considered as chologogue and purgative. The fresh juice of the plant is used against headache. Due to its slow rate of conventional multiplication, the plant is very high in demand. In this review report we collected information related to taxonomy, monographs, distribution, morphology, phytochemistry, traditional uses and pharmacological studies of Croton bonplandianum Baill plant in details.

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