Abstract

Plant Homalium zeylanicum Benth belongs to Flacourtiaceae family and is distributed in evergreen and semi-evergreen forests, native to south India and srilanka.It is also found in Bangladesh, Laos. Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam. The various parts of plant including bark and leaf having many traditional medicinal uses, mainly in diabetes, wound healing. It has been traditionally used for treating several ailments including rheumatism, anti-inflammatory, and hepatoprotective and ant diabetic agent in Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh. In Nigeria, it is used as traditional medicine for the treatment of malaria, ulcer, and inflammatory diseases and as an aphrodisiac. Various studies have been conducted to evaluate the medicinal properties of plant. A variety of phytoconstituents are identified and isolated from the H.zeylanicum.A perspective review of the ethanobotanical, phytochemical and pharmacological investigations of H.Zeylanicum are presented in this review.