PHARMACOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS OF Barleria lupulina Lindl.

July 2018 In book: Pharmacological Benefits of Natural ProductsPublisher: JPS Scientific Publications, India Ajeet SinghAjeet SinghShweta DhariwalNavneet Navneet Abstract The use of the traditional plants combating microbial diseases is becoming the focus of numerous studies. About 3.4 billion peoples in the developing world depend on plant based traditional medicines natural products have been an integral part of the ancient traditional medicine systems (e.g. Chinese, Egyptian and Ayurvedic). Plants have unlimited ability to synthesize secondary metabolites such as tannins, terpenoids, alkaloids, glycosides and phenols which have been found to have antimicrobial properties. It has been estimated that 14- 28% of higher plant species are used in medicinal purposes and that 74% of pharmacologically active plant derived components were discovered after following up on ethnobotanical uses of the plants. Barleria lupulina Lindl. (Family: Acanthaceae) commonly known as Bishalyakarani or Vishalyakarani. It is an introduced species from Mauritius. It is a small shrub and is distributed in South East Asia. It is used for its medicinal importance as the leaf juice is given to stop bleeding when cut and the leaf-paste is used as poultice to relief pain. It is also used as an anti-inflammatory against insect bites, snake bites, herpes simplex virus