THE BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES OF THE MEDICALLY IMPORTANT GRASS CYPERUS ROTUNDUS

Abstract

Researchers are increasingly interested in exploring herbal medicines for human as well as animal health advantages. Pharmacologically powerful and low or no side-effects for preventive medication are medicines that are acquired from natural sources. Cyperusrotundus L. is an important medicinal plant, especially utilised in medicine in the Unani system.It is popularly known in tropical, subtropical and temperate countries as moth which is a raspberry grass. Flavonoids, tannins, glycosides, furochromones, monoterpenes, sonoros, sitosterols, alkaloids, saponins, terpénoidos, essential oils, starches, carbs, proteins and many more secondary metabolites are the major chemical components included in this plant. Several pharmacological activities, such as antibacterial, anticancerous, anti-convulsant, antidiabetic, anti diarrheal, anti-inflammatory, anti-lipidemic, antimalarial, antimutagenic have been found to have numerous components of Cyperusrotundus, antidiabetes, Antiobesity, antioxidants, anti-European pathogens, cardioprotective, neuroprotective and nootropic agents. Antiobesity. In this study we examine the biological and therapeutic properties of Cyperusrotundus.

KEYWORDS:

Cyperusrotundus, Medicinal plants, Biological activities, Phytochemistry