India is considered as Golden bird in terms of rich diversity of medicinal plants it posses. Since ages, hundreds of tribals residing in and around forests have acquired valuable information of the plants of healing property or value to human health. These also include knowledge on plant parts such as barks, roots, leaves, flowers and fruits possessing individualistic and high medicinal properties. One such versatile vital plant Ficus racemosa Linn. include two main leucoanthocyanins, leucocyanidin-3-O-β-glucopyranoside, leucopelarogonidin-3-O-α-L-rhamnopyranoside, β-sitosterol, long chain ketones, ceryl behenate, lupeol, lupeol acetate, α-amyrin acetate, glauanol, hentriacontane, tiglic acid, esters of taraxasterol, friedelin, phytosterol, tetracyclic triterpenes glauanol acetate. The present review is an effort to concise the properties and explored potential to the medicinal world, of this imperative plant.
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