Review on Phytochemical Profile of Adhatoda vasica Leaves

The medicinal plants have been plays vital role from ancient times. Adhatoda vasica belongs to the Acanthaceae family. Adhatoda vasica, commonly known as “Adulsa, Vasaka, Malabar Nut” is an ayurvedic medicinal plant used to treat blood diseases, asthma, coughing, nasal congestion, allergies, and breathing issues. (Ravishankar, 2007), (Atish Gheware, Dhwani Dholakia, Sadasivam Kannan, Lipsa Panda, Ritu Rani, Bijay Ranjan Pattnaik, Vaibhav Jain, Yash Parekh, M. Ghalib Enayathullah, Kiran Kumar Bokar, Venkatesan Subramanian, Mitali Mukerji, Anurag Agrawal, and Bhavana Prasher, 2021) Adhatoda vasica is used as traditional as well as modern respiratory therapeutics. It has pharmacological qualities like expectorant, bronchodilator, mucolytic, sedative, antispasmodic, antitussive, antibacterial, and anti-diabetic activity. The alkaloids Vasicine and vasicinone exhibit an important role in bronchodilation, expectorant, anti-inflammatory, and antibacterial properties, and are among the active ingredients of Adhatoda vasica. Asthma, bronchitis, cough, and other respiratory physical disorders.