A REVIEW ON PHARMACOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES AND POTENTIAL HEALTH BENEFITS OF MORINGA OLEIFERA

Author: Neetu Chouhan, Surbhi Jangir

Abstract:
Moringa oleifera also called as a drumstick and horseradish tree. This plant is of medicinal value & exhibit so many pharmacological activities such as analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antipyretic, nootropic, antiasthmatic, anticancer, antidiarrheal gastro protective, antiepileptic, anti-urolithiatic, antioxidant, hepatoprotective, anti-ulcer, antimicrobial, cardiovascular, anti-obesity, antidiabetic, diuretic, local anesthetic, antidiarrheal, anti-allergic, anthelmintic, wound healing, and immunomodulatory, properties. This plant has wide range of the phytoconstituents that showing above pharmacological activities. The present review showed the literature of the traditional uses, phytochemical properties with therapeutic uses of drumstick tree and in promoting human health. Thus this plant has most popularity as curing different diseases relating to human health.