A Comprehensive Review on Five Medicinal Plants of Bangladesh. Chemical Constituents and Uses

Since primeval times plants have been utilized as a potent source of medicine to treat many life-threatening diseases. One of the potential ways to evaluate the importance of a medicinal plant is to identify its active chemical constituents and pharmacological activities. Thus the present study involves a thorough discussion about the general description phytochemistry and medicinal properties of five different plants: Gymnema sylvestre Momordica charantia Coccinia cordifolia Trigonella foenum-graecum and Lagerstroemia speciosa. All five selected plants belong to different families but possess similar pharmacological activities such as anti-diabetic anti-cancer antioxidant antimicrobial analgesic anti-inflammatory anti-nociceptive hypolipidemic and so on. Here the authors have reviewed all reported chemical constituents as well as the pharmacological activities of the examined plants.