Original Articles
Karnati Rajeswari and T. Bhask
Abstract
The review is conducted on Excoecaria. Different pa rts plants like wood, root, leaves, stem and leaves , stem, stem and twigs, twigs and bark, bark, twigs and leaves a re studied in this review. The study of this review revealed that the parts of plants like wood, root, leaves, stem a nd leaves; stem, stem and twigs, twigs and bark, ba rk, twigs and leaves are isolated by 91 compounds. The following biological activities, which are from the crude ext ract, are observed as follow anti cancer, antimicrobial, anti bacterial, anti-inflammatory, anti micro fouling, antioxidant, anti-histamine. They release invitro anti bacterial , anti-tumour-promoting and cytotoxicity, anti-reve rse transcriptase, human cancer cell and anti HIV. This observation finally found that there are many comp ounds in wood and more number of biological activities in Le aves. Bark, twigs and leaves are observed as anti HIV