Review on Medicinal plant Phyllanthus Niruri and its Effects

Abstract

This review article focuses on the widely used Phyllanthus Niruri, which is also called as ‘keezhanelli’ in Tamil and belongs to the group of family called “Euphorbiaceae”, which is specially grown in regions of ‘India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and other tropical areas’. The leaves of the medicinal plant are used substantially in Ayurveda and native medicine to cure various diseases such as ‘liver damage, hepatitis, jaundice, renal disorders, enteritis, diarrhoea, and dropsy’. It discusses the wide variety of phytochemical properties, pharmacological properties, anti-malarial reactions, anti-cancer reactions, anti-platelet reactions, and antimicrobial reactions. The parts of those plants have many active phytochemicals.