Medicinal importance of Terminalia arjuna

What is it about?

Terminalia arjuna (Roxb.) Wight and Arn. (Arjuna tree) is one of the important medicinal plants which belong to the family Combertaceae. This plant is widely distributed in Asia, especially in India and Bangladesh, and has been used extensively in modern herbal preparations related to heart diseases. In ethnobotanical perspective, this plant has great significance and utilized variously by the indigenous tribe. Through, this article is an attempt, has been made to recapitulate its ethnobotanical importances, current uses in healthcare in treatment of various aliments, and its future prospective. The potential of this plant is also highlighted in the context of genetic engineering and tissue culture approaches through that the production of plant cell products can be improved many folds without any serious loss to the diversity of this imperative medicinal plant.

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Why is it important?

Source of phytomedicines

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