World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

A REVIEW STUDY ON PHYTOCHEMISTRY, PHARMACOLOGICAL PROPERTIES & TRADITIONAL USES OF CHLORANTHUS ELATIOR

Umme Tabassum Arobi Katha and Yesmin Begum*

ABSTRACT

Chloranthus elatior, a medicinal plant belongs to the family Chloranthaceae, is native to Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam. This valuable medicinal plant is used in traditional healing for many generations by herbal practitioners. All parts of this plant can be used to make a tea and beverage with softly bitter taste, wonderful aroma, mildly peppery, slightly sweet and of rather masculine character. This plant’s infusion, decoction or tinctures are taken orally as a treatment for fevers, infections, inflammations, pregnancy & delivery, breathing problems, pain, muscle spasms, emesis, wound, swelling, bone fractures, injury etc. The potential biological properties and presence of responsible metabolites increases it’s importance and uses day by day. As a therapeutic plant, C. elatior added great value in ethnobotanical sources and the current review study is focused to summarize all folklore uses, chemical potentials and pharmacological properties.

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