Abstract
Plant Opuntia ficus-indica. (OFI) has a place with cactaceae, this plant is local of Mexico and it is broadly dispersed in all American halves of the globe and additionally in Africa and in the Mediterranean bowl. The different parts of plant including fruits, flowers and cladode having numerous customary uses, chiefly in ulcers, rheumatic agony, wounds fatigue and diabetes. An assortment of phytoconstituents are recognized and segregated from the OFI which incorporates principally, tocopherol, phytosterols, fatty acids and spirits aliphatic, 24–methylcyclophenol, cyclophenol, beta-amirin, gallic corrosive, coumaric, 3,4-dihydroxybenzoic, quercetin 3-O-rutinoside, 4 kaempferol 3-O-rutinoside, 5 quercetin 3-O-glucoside. Pharmacological activities against gastric ulcer, anti-incendiary action, neuroprotective, anti-viral, hepatoprotective, antioxidant property exercises are accounted for by different concentrates of OFI. A point of interest of the ethnobotanical, phytochemical and pharmacological examinations of OFI is exhibited in this survey. OFI plant can exploited for commercializing the phytomedicine for various disease or disorders. In this respect this review is written.
