Traditional systems of medicine such as Ayurvedic, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH) have been in practice in a great account. Owing to population rise, inadequate supply of drugs, prohibitive cost of treatments, side effects of several allopathic drugs and development of resistance to currently used drugs for diseases have led to increased emphasis on the use of plant materials as a source of medicines for a wide variety of human ailments as witnessed by the use of folk medicines in the present scenario. This review article describes the prominence of a medicinal plant Tamarindus indica L. in therapeutics such as use of crude extract of plant for the amelioration of various diseases, morphology, growth constraints, biochemical composition, biological activities. Considering the growing interest in the field of plant drugs assessing different pharmacological activity. In this review we have discussed about the therapeutic potential and chemical constituents Tamarindus indica. It is available all over the country. Tamarindus indica is having some reported activities like antidiabetic, hypolipidemic, hepatoprotective and antimicrobial properties. This plant is consumed by rural people as vegetable.
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