Tamarindus indica: Extent of explored potential

Tamarindus is a monotypic genus and belongs to the subfamily Caesalpinioideae of the family Leguminosae (Fabaceae), Tamarindus indica L., commonly known as Tamarind tree is one of the most important multipurpose tropical fruit tree species in the Indian subcontinent. Tamarind fruit was at first thou...

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Main Authors:	Bhadoriya, Santosh Singh, Ganeshpurkar, Aditya, Narwaria, Jitendra, Rai, Gopal, Jain, Alok Pal
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Language:	English
Published:	Medknow Publications Pvt Ltd 2011
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3210002/

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spelling	pubmed-32100022011-11-17 Tamarindus indica: Extent of explored potential Bhadoriya, Santosh Singh Ganeshpurkar, Aditya Narwaria, Jitendra Rai, Gopal Jain, Alok Pal Review Article Tamarindus is a monotypic genus and belongs to the subfamily Caesalpinioideae of the family Leguminosae (Fabaceae), Tamarindus indica L., commonly known as Tamarind tree is one of the most important multipurpose tropical fruit tree species in the Indian subcontinent. Tamarind fruit was at first thought to be produced by an Indian palm, as the name Tamarind comes from a Persian word “Tamar-I-hind,” meaning date of India. Its name “Amlika” in Sanskrit indicates its ancient presence in the country. T.indica is used as traditional medicine in India, Africa, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria,and most of the tropical countries. It is used traditionally in abdominal pain, diarrhea and dysentery, helminthes infections, wound healing, malaria and fever, constipation, inflammation, cell cytotoxicity, gonorrhea, and eye diseases. It has numerous chemical values and is rich in phytochemicals, and hence the plant is reported to possess antidiabetic activity, antimicrobial activity, antivenomic activity, antioxidant activity, antimalarial activity, hepatoprotective activity, antiasthmatic activity, laxative activity, and anti-hyperlipidemic activity. Every part of the plant from root to leaf tips is useful for human needs. Thus the aim of the present review is to describe its morphology, and explore the phytochemical constituents, commercial utilization of the parts of the plant, and medicinal and pharmacologic activities so that T. indica's potential as multipurpose tree species can be understood. Medknow Publications Pvt Ltd 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3210002/ /pubmed/22096321 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-7847.79102 Text en © Pharmacognosy Reviews http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author	Bhadoriya, Santosh Singh Ganeshpurkar, Aditya Narwaria, Jitendra Rai, Gopal Jain, Alok Pal
spellingShingle	Bhadoriya, Santosh Singh Ganeshpurkar, Aditya Narwaria, Jitendra Rai, Gopal Jain, Alok Pal Tamarindus indica: Extent of explored potential
author_facet	Bhadoriya, Santosh Singh Ganeshpurkar, Aditya Narwaria, Jitendra Rai, Gopal Jain, Alok Pal
author_sort	Bhadoriya, Santosh Singh
title	Tamarindus indica: Extent of explored potential
title_short	Tamarindus indica: Extent of explored potential
title_full	Tamarindus indica: Extent of explored potential
title_fullStr	Tamarindus indica: Extent of explored potential
title_full_unstemmed	Tamarindus indica: Extent of explored potential
title_sort	tamarindus indica: extent of explored potential
description	Tamarindus is a monotypic genus and belongs to the subfamily Caesalpinioideae of the family Leguminosae (Fabaceae), Tamarindus indica L., commonly known as Tamarind tree is one of the most important multipurpose tropical fruit tree species in the Indian subcontinent. Tamarind fruit was at first thought to be produced by an Indian palm, as the name Tamarind comes from a Persian word “Tamar-I-hind,” meaning date of India. Its name “Amlika” in Sanskrit indicates its ancient presence in the country. T.indica is used as traditional medicine in India, Africa, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria,and most of the tropical countries. It is used traditionally in abdominal pain, diarrhea and dysentery, helminthes infections, wound healing, malaria and fever, constipation, inflammation, cell cytotoxicity, gonorrhea, and eye diseases. It has numerous chemical values and is rich in phytochemicals, and hence the plant is reported to possess antidiabetic activity, antimicrobial activity, antivenomic activity, antioxidant activity, antimalarial activity, hepatoprotective activity, antiasthmatic activity, laxative activity, and anti-hyperlipidemic activity. Every part of the plant from root to leaf tips is useful for human needs. Thus the aim of the present review is to describe its morphology, and explore the phytochemical constituents, commercial utilization of the parts of the plant, and medicinal and pharmacologic activities so that T. indica's potential as multipurpose tree species can be understood.
publisher	Medknow Publications Pvt Ltd
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Tamarindus indica: Extent of explored potential

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