Pistacia integrrima: Evaluating the Value of an Important Medicinal Plant | InformativeBD

Muhammad Shuaib,  Kashif Ali, Umar Zeb,  Firasat Hussain,  Muhammad Aurang Zeb, Saddam Hussain, and Fida Hussain, from the institute of China. wrote a Research article about, Pistacia integrrima: Evaluating the Value of an Important Medicinal Plant. Entitled, Evaluation of Pistacia integrrima; an important plant. This research paper published by the International Journal of Biosciences | IJB. an open access scholarly research journal on Biosciences. under the affiliation of the International Network For Natural Sciences| INNSpub. an open access multidisciplinary research journal publisher.

Abstract

Pistacia integrrima is a typical therapeutic plant belongs to family Anacardiaceae and local to Japan, China and found in the Northern regions of Pakistan commonly called KakrraSingi (Urdu) and Shanai (Pushto). It is used ethnomedicinally for a number of diseases include fever, cough, asthma, vomiting, Ascaris, Anorexia, Allergy, viral infections, diarrhea, snake and scorpion biting sting. The different parts of the plant roots, leaves, stems, barks, Galls and fruits contains various bioactive compounds like amino acid, alkaloids, sterols, flavonoids, tannins, saponins, aromadendrene, Pistacinin, Pistacin, Dihydromalvic acid, Pistacienoic acid, sitosterol, resin, essential oils, caprylic acid, camphene, cineol, sterals, dihydroqueretin and triterpenoids. Antimicrobial activity of chloroform and ethanol leaves extract from Pistacia integrrima reported in many research papers. The leave extract exhibited the fungi growth including Aspergillus flavus, Dreschlera turcica and Fusarium verticillioides. The plant is known to have many biological activities including antibacterial, antifungal, analgesic, antioxidant, phytotoxic, cytotoxicity and antiasthmatic. The current review will cover biological activities, phytochemical evaluation, ethnomedicinal uses, ethnobotanical uses and aim to serve as a base for additional investigation and exploitation. The current review shows a gap needed further investigations and isolations of new compound, and its biological activities.

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Introduction

Pistacia integerrima belong to family Anacardiaceae and a native dioecious tree to China, Japan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and India (Pant and Samant, 2010). The different researcher goal medicinal flora like the development of therapeutic compounds (Elisabetsky, 1991).

There is some disease in the world which cause much death killing almost 40000 people, a disease like diarrhea cause huge mortality among children’s (Piddock et al., 1991). Bacteria like Escherichia coli, Salmonella spp. and Staphylococcus aureus are most common species which are pathogenic to children (Singh 1992). In recent years drug resistance to human pathogenic bacteria has been commonly reported from all over the world (Mulligen et al., 1992). Plant-based drugs are 120 worldwide and it is obtained from 95 plants.

About 250,000 flowering species and about 5000 flowers had pharmaceutical potential assessed. In East Asia, many plants are considered to have significant medicinal features i.e. antiinflammatory, anti-bacterial and analgesic functions because they contain a large variety of phytochemical i.e. monoterpenoids, sesquiterpenoids, and curcuminoids (Tang, 1992).

It is found and mostly grows at an altitude of 900- 2000m. Pistacia integrrima commonly called zebra wood but it has many vernacular names in Pakistan like Shania, Kakra, Khanjar, Thoak and India like Kakring, Kakra, Kakroi, Kakkar, Singhi, kakarsinghi (Orwa et al., 2009). Pistacia integrrima is a well prominent due to Galls that present on the leaves and petioles. These galls are like animals horn shaped. The galls are the store house of various secondary metabolites so; it has importance in Indian traditional medicine systems (Chopra et al., 1986).

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