Abstract
Objective: Fumaria indica is an essential curative herb and asserted as a prevalent weed across the plains of India. The entire plant is popularly employed in conventional systems of medicine for its therapeutic activities like anthelmintic, diuretic, diaphoretic, laxative, purging and stomachic. The entire plant is regarded to have therapeutical purposes in Ayurvedic and Unani systems of medicine and is employed in the preparation of important Ayurvedic formulation Parpataka. In Unani systems of medicine, it is used as shahtara. This contemporary study is intended to authenticate and validate the species Fumaria indica with respect to Parpataka drug.
 Methods: The chief objective of this contemporary research work is to assess the various pharmacognostic properties like Macroscopical, Microscopical, Physiochemical and Fluorescence studies. Microscopical studies include cell structure and their arrangement, Physicochemical parameter s include loss on drying, total ash value, acid insoluble ash, water-insoluble ash, various extractive values etc. Qualitative tests for various functional groups were also carried out.
 Results: The microscopical characters of leaf, stem and roots, physicochemical, preliminary phytochemical profiles were established.
 Conclusion: The pharmacognostical screening on Fumaria indica is significant data for the identification and to determine the quality and purity of the plant material in future reviews.
Highlights
IntroductionDiaphoretic, aperient, laxative and anthelmintic. It is used in low-grade fevers, to purify the blood and in skin disorders
Fumaria indica is diuretic, diaphoretic, aperient, laxative and anthelmintic
The dried aerial parts of the F. vaillantii Loisel, are used as a substitute for fumitory in North India [3]. It is used in Ayurveda against fevers in Punjab and North India [4]
Summary
Diaphoretic, aperient, laxative and anthelmintic. It is used in low-grade fevers, to purify the blood and in skin disorders. It is used in Ayurveda against fevers in Punjab and North India [4] It is prescribed in the Siddha system of medicine, diuretic, stomachic, purifies the blood in skin diseases, strengthens the teeth and gives luster to the eyes, stops vomiting, good in diseases of the spleen [5]. It is used in Europe as an alternative, aperient, and antifebrile drug in Spain; it is given in visceral obstructions, scorbutic affections and in various eruptive diseases [6]
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