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The hidden powers of calotropis gigantea: Exploring its medicinal, toxic, and ecological dimensions

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Author Details : Prathmesh Wagh*, Kavita Handge, Sneha Kurhade, Shraddha Wagh, Vivek Bhoir, Kiran Dhokale

Volume : 6, Issue : 4, Year : 2024

Article Page : 160-167

https://doi.org/10.18231/j.ctppc.2024.031

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Abstract

Plants are used by peoples for the basis for medical treatments from ancient time and are still in routinely used as traditional medicine in practiced today. There are a huge number of plants having ultimate pharmacological action. In modernization and advancement in research new drug entities came into and play a role in management of any disorder and ailments. The modern allopathic medicine having serious complication at therapeutic dose. Traditional herbal medicines play a significant role in management and treatment of diseases and are getting noteworthy attention in worldwide health debates. Traditional systems of medicine persistently in practiced in many countries around the globe. There is a lot of reason that the people used herbal based medicine. Population augments, inadequate supply of drugs, cost of the treatment, and complicated reaction with the synthetic drugs and weakens of immunity system for infectious diseases have accent on the use of plant based medicines for the treatment of various ailments. There is large hierarchy of medicinal plant, calotropis gigantea having tremendous and ultimate pharmacological profile and used from ancient time in the treatment of various diseases.

Keywords: Calotropis gigantea Linn, Calotropis procera, L-rhamnose

How to cite : Wagh P, Handge K, Kurhade S, Wagh S, Bhoir V, Dhokale K, The hidden powers of calotropis gigantea: Exploring its medicinal, toxic, and ecological dimensions. Curr Trends Pharm Pharm Chem 2024;6(4):160-167

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