Ethnic and scientific reports on medicinally potential rare explored genus - thalictrum of family ranunculaceae

Abstract

Background: Plants remains a source of food as wells as medicine and healthcare needs since the dawn of civilization. Plants and plants derived products are available in crude form as well as in dosage forms which are widely prescribed by the medical practitioners and believed safe to consume as compared to the synthetic compounds based medicines. Many bioactive compounds derived from the plant sources are utilized in various health problems. A vast research on the medicinal plants has been conducted worldwide but there are many plants species which are still unexplored. Despite having ethnic reports as medicine, a very lesser number of plant species of the genus. Methods: We have been consulting various articles from scientific data available on internet specially, ScienceDirect, Scopus, PubMed, Web of Science. Thalictrum of family Ranunculaceae have been explored scientifically in terms of pharmacology, phytochemistry, bioactivity studies. Results: Thalictrum is the genus of plants bear flowers in the family Ranunculaceae containing about 200 species in the diverse region of the globe.