ABSTRACT:
Medicinal plants have been the subjects of man’s curiosity since time immemorial. Almost every civilization has a history of medicinal plant use. Approximately 80% of the people in the world’s developing countries rely on traditional medicine for their primary health care needs, and about 85% of traditional medicine involves the use of plant extracts Adhatoda vasica Nees. is an evergreen shrub, distributed from the Punjab in the North and Bengal and Assam in the South-East to the Cylon, Malaya and Singapore in the South. It is one of the most important medicinal plants of this region. The plant is valued for containing bronchodilator alkaloids, mainly vasicine. All parts of the plant are used in herbal medicine and particularly the leaves are credited with insecticidal and parasiticidal properties. The root is useful in strangury, leucorrhoea, bronchitis, asthma, bilious vomiting, sore eyes, fever and gonorrhoea. It is a valuable antiseptic, antiperiodic and anthelmintic. It is well-known in Ayurveda by its Sanskrit name Vasaka& commonly known as Adusa. This paper has been prepared somehow that most of the studies reported on this medicinal has been touched so that much attention will be focused towards this important medicinal plant
