EC Pharmacology And Toxicology

Review Article Volume 12 Issue 12 - 2024

A Comprehensive Review on Phytopharmacological Studies of Leucas aspera

Sandhya BC1, Asma Saqib2* and Vijay Kumar Govindraj3

1PhD Scholar, Department of Biochemistry, Reva university, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
2Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Maharani Cluster University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
3Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Reva university, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
*Corresponding Author: Asma Saqib, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Maharani Cluster University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
Received: November 08, 2024; Published: November 20, 2024



Global health awareness is required for better treatment of human diseases and their medication is necessary and the current study presents the phytopharmacological studies of Leucas aspera (Lamiaceae) based on the recent research reports. Most of photosynthetic substances have been extracted from L. aspera including oleanolic corrosive, ursolic corrosive and 3 sitosterol, leucasperones A and B, leucasperols A and B, isopimarane is the most active component of aspera. The plant contains abundant bioactives such as alkaloids, flavonoids, phenolics, terpenes and N containing compounds which shows different pharmacological activities such as antidiabetic, anti-inflammatory, antifungal, anticancer and Leucas aspera is also used to treat various diseases. This review gives findings from various in vitro and in vivo activities performed by different researchers and further studies are required to investigate the bioactives present in the plant and development of different therapeutic medicines to treat the diseases by medical validation and bring awareness the usage of leucas aspera as therapeutic agent. This abstract reviews the key potential phytochemical components and encourages further research for its applications for development of different functional health products.

 Keywords: Pharmacognostic; Antinociceptive; Angiosuppressive; Parkinson’s Disease; Antidiabetic; CNS Depressant Activity

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Asma Saqib., et al. “A Comprehensive Review on Phytopharmacological Studies of Leucas aspera” ”. EC Pharmacology and Toxicology  12.12 (2024): 01-10.

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