Abstrakt

Therapeutic and Pharmaceutical Potential of Cinnamomum Tamala

Ravi Kant Upadhyay

The present review explains therapeutic and pharmaceutical potential of Cinnamomum tamala a well-known plant grows in high altitude areas of tropical and subtropical regions. This article emphasizes important uses of C. tamala constituents as spice, drug, and drug carrier with its therapeutic potential. Plant is a good depository of chemical constituents most of which are found in bark essential oils showed important biological activities such as antidiarrheic, antitumor, anti-inflammatory, anti-arthritic, antiparasitic, gastrourinary, antitumor, antiparasitic, antioxidant, chemopreventive, and gastroprotective. Plant leaves are used to generate special flavor to dishes, beverages and food items. Plant bark is a good source of essential oils and its phenolic compounds show multiple beneficial effects against Alzheimer's disease, cardiac mainly arteriosclerosis. Plant also shows therapeutic effects against cancer and inflammation, cardiac, and neurological disorders. Plant bark, fruits and leaves contain essential oil that shows nematicidal, termiticidal, larvicidal, microbicidal, antipyretic and anxiolytic activity. This article suggests wider use of C. tamala and its associating species in generation of chemopreventive anti-cancer, antiulcer, immunomodulatory,antilipidemic, antidiabetic and hepatoprotective drugs which might show broad-spectrum biological effectiveness.