Paeonia emodi: An Ethnopharmacological and Phytochemical Review

Abstract

This review is an attempt to evaluate the phytochemical potential of the Paeonia emodi and covers the pharmacological and ethnopharmacological activities of its chemical constituents, newly isolated chemical compounds and their medicinal importance. P. emodi is used in several traditional medicinal systems in China, Korea, Pakistan, India and Thailand. Different isolated natural products like anthraquinones, terpenoids, tannins, carbohydrates, phenolics and tannins, glycosides, paeoniflorin, lactiflorin, oxypaeoniflorin, cycloartenol, cholesterol, sitosterol, campesterol, emodinol, 3-hydroxybenzoic acid, benzoic acid, anthraquinones, terpenoids, tannins, decanoic, lauric, myristic, myristoleic, palmitic and linoleic acids etc. have been found in P. emodi. It is commonly used as an antibacterial, antifungal and anti-inflammatory agent. It has been used for the treatment of diarrhoea, whooping cough, haemorrhoids, backbone ache, dropsy, headache, dizziness, vomiting, cholera, tuberculosis, eye diseases, atopic eczema, anti-coagulant, analgesic, internal diseases, pains, epilepsy, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease and for sedative purposes. The collected information is an attempt to cover recent developments in the ethnopharmacology, pharmacology and phytochemistry of this species so as to lend a hand base for further research works of the plant.

Keywords: Paeonia emodi, traditional medicine, compounds, Phytochemistry, ethnopharmacology

Cite this Article

Sumeera Nazir, Ubaid Yaqoob, Irshad Ahmad Nawchoo et al. Paeonia emodi: An Ethnopharmacological and Phytochemical Review. Research & Reviews: Journal of Herbal Science. 2017; 6(2): 11–20p.