A Review Article on Prelimanary Screening & pharmacological activities of Jamun (syzygium cumini)

Parveen Ruhil; Rajiv Arora; Vivek Kumar

Volume : VII, Issue : I, January - 2018

A Review Article on Prelimanary Screening & pharmacological activities of Jamun (syzygium cumini)

Parveen Ruhil, Rajiv Arora, Vivek Kumar

Abstract :

Medicinal plants has assumed greater importance in the recent days .The Syzygium Cumini (Jamun) is an evergreen tropical tree in the flowering plant family (myrtaceae) . It is widely used as folk medicine to treat many biological or pharmacological activities including antidiabetic , antioxidant, antifungal, anti inflammatory , CNS depressant ,antitumor ,anti cancer activites and so on .This study was intended to evaluvate the antimicrobial and anti–inflammatory activity of jamun (syzygium cumini) seed . we have investigated the preliminary screening of Jamun (syzygium cumini) which showed the presence of steroids , phenols , flavonoids and so on . The ethyl acetate extract of syzygium cumini seed has showed the anti–microbial and anti–inflammatory .we have also concluded that methanol extract of jamun seed have potent antioxidant activity and anti–inflammatory activity ,which provide a base for further clinical trails .