Alkaloids

Plants are the biofactories. Indian Medicinal plants and their role in therapeutic usage was well documented by Charaka and Sushruta in 1500-500 BC. Medicinal Plants have been used in healthcare since long era. The vital role of medicinal plants in disease prevention and there promotions. Thus, in present review attempts were made to compile the data of Medicinal plants and their secondary metabolites for screening or bio-efficacy and/or isolation of bioactive especially with reference to alkaloids from Rajasthan. The study was conducted in region of Rajasthan, India. Rajasthan is situated in the north-western part of India between 23^3’ and 30^12 N latitude and 69^30’ and 78^17 E longitude and comprises an area of about 34239 Sq Km. Electronic literature review method was accustomed to study different review paper or research articles.The data was collected from Google, Google scolar ,Pubchem science direct and also from various type of Journal such as Journal of Asian natural product research , African Pacific Journal of infectious disease etc. from the year 1984-2019were taken under consideration. In this review article 30 plants were reviewed and study for the alkaloids and their efficiency as therapeutic agents was reported. In this research we found that 15 families and from these families approximate 210 alkaloids were found to be present. These plants possess various biological activities such as, anti-inflammation, anti-diabetic, anti-cancerous.Plants surviving in such harsh condition possess amount of alkaloids which provides medicinal properties to the mankind and also provide the defense mechanism to the plants. These alkaloids rich plants can be alternative source of diet and replace the nutraceuticals as therapeutic targets in future.