Phenolics are the large classes of compounds, spread extensively in plant kingdom, especially the secondary metabolites like simple phenol and phenolic acids. Article was designed to explore the therapeutic effect of quinic acid through available literature (last 20 years literature). The last 20 years literatures was carried out by searching bibliographic data bases such as Pubmed, Scopus, Google scholar and web of science. The data were collected by keywords like “Quinic Acid” and “Pharmacological activity” without narrowing or limiting search items. Publications with abstracts were reviewed only. Total publications found in initial research were 80, in which 37 publications were considered for study and remaining were excluded because of its specificity to the subject. This article will provide all the information of quinic acid like description, physical properties, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics studies, molecular mechanism and its scope for future work.
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