Indian Medicinal plants

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.

Plants are multicellular living beings that manufacture their own organic matter through photosynthesis, which is why they are said to be autotrophic beings, that is, they do not need to eat other living things to obtain food, since they are capable of manufacturing them same. through photosynthesis Each plant is a chemical factory that has many metabolites. Medicinal plants have been used for thousands of years to flavor and preserve food, as a treatment against different microorganisms that cause many health disorders, such as bacteria, fungi, parasites and yeasts, and as disease prevention. Currently in India, more than 70% of the population uses herbal medicines for their health. There is ample evidence based on the experience of many of these medications; it is for this reason that proper authentication and standardization are needed, as previous steps to consider the source materials for herbal formulation in any medicine system, WHO continuously emphasizes ensuring quality control of medicinal plant products using modern techniques and the application of appropriate standards. The objective of this research is to review the current status of medicinal plants at large in India and role of standardization and validation of Indian medicinal plants. The overview depicts the outlay about the essence and necessarily of standardization using different markers to identify the correct characterization of Indian Medicinal Plants. These markers can so simple and specific to a plant so that the plant can possess correct and perfect identification in terms of validation.