Ficus racemosa L.
Traditional Knowledge
Useful plant parts :
Unripe fruit, root, leaf and bark
Uses in traditional medicine :
- Sap from mature roots is taken early morning before meals to treat diabetes
- Unripe fruit juice is taken for urinary disorders
- Leaves are used for bilious ailments
- Roots are used for dysentery, haemorrhoids and gonorrhoea
- Milky juice is used for piles and diarrhoea
Scientific Research
Chemical constituents:
Tetrahydropyran glucoside: racemosic acid from plant; β-sitosterol, terpene: lupeol and flavonoid: quercetin from aerial parts
Bioactivity :
Methanol extract of stem bark: hypoglycaemic, antitussive, antipyretic; racemosic acid: anti-inflammatory, antioxidative; ethanol and aqueous extracts of roots: antimicrobial, wound healing; petroleum ether extract of leaves: hepatoprotective; methanol extract of aerial parts: anticarcinogenic, chemopreventive; bark extracts: anthelmintic, induces platelet aggregation, anticholinesterase, antidiabetic, hypolipidaemic, cardioprotective; decoction of bark: antidiuretic
Clinical:
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