A REVIEW ON DAUCUS CAROTA AND PLUMBAGO ZEYLANICA

*Anish Kumar, Jyoti Singh, Devesh and Ramesh Kumar Singh

ABSTRACT

Plumbago zeylanica is commonly known as a white chitraka, belongs to family plumbaginaceae. It is a perennial sub-scandent shrub, grows throughout India, especially in Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, South India and Canada Sri Lanka and other countries and has a sound philosophical and experiential basis. It is distributed as a wild plant throughout the sultry and subtropical countries of the world.Traditionally it is used as a ulcer protective, stimulant, blood increasing expectorant, laxative, digestant, abortifacient and in the treatment of muscular pain rheumatic disease and some other disease. Carrot (Daucus carota subsp. sativus) is a widely cultivated root vegetable of high economic importance. The aroma of carrot roots and aboveground organs is mainly defined by terpenes. Treatments with purified polyacetylenes also induced apoptosis in a dose and time responsive manner. Moreover, falcarinol and falcarindiol-3-acetate isolated from Daucus carota L were more cytotoxic than falcarindiol. In contrast, the carotenoids showed no significant effect on either apoptosis or cell proliferation in any of the cells investigated.

Keywords: Plumbago zeylanica, Charak Samhita, Carotenoids, Daucus carota, Plumbaginaceae.