Hina Batool*, Mumtaz Hussain, Mansoor Hameed and Rashid Ahmad
Medicinal plants are important by biological active ingredients as the major source of medicine. Calotropis procera is drought resistant medicinal perennial shrub mostly found in arid to semi-arid areas. It is a major source of secondary metabolites including phenols, flavonoids, terpenoids, sugars, alkaloids, tannins cardenolides, glycoside, saponins and steroids. It has medicinal properties as hepatoprotective, antioxidant, inflammatory, antimicrobial and antimalarial. It is vigorously used for the ailment of common diseases i.e., fever, leprosy, eczema, diarrohea, dysentery and jaundice.
