Coccinia Grandis a Potential Herb in Traditional Use and Recent Established Biological Activities with New Prospectives -A Review

Abstract

In our human era different plants are used from different family which are medicinally used. Traditional remedies the medicines are used with various plants which contains large number of pharmacological values and plenty of bioactive compounds. Different parts like seeds, bark, roots, leaves, fruits used in folk medicine. Different disease like wound healing, diabetes, stomach pain, fever like several diseases uses the plant parts in traditionally. Coccinia grandis have long been used traditionally in treatments in native area like north-central East Africa and also in Indo-Malayan region. Not only the medicinal purposes it also used in food in several countries like Asia , Australia, the Pacific Islands, the Caribbean, and southern United States, and West Bengal also. This review represented an overview of Coccinia grandis traditional and recently established biological activities and new prospectives.