Around the world, the use of medicinal plants for ailments had been in use for centuries. The advantage over other allopathic drugs, in terms of lower side effects, and more effective, provided enough motivation to carryout research for finding out potential medicinal activity for different ailments. One such plant of the genus Trichosanthes has been selected for the present review, it has found to be an native of Southern and Eastern Asia, Australia and islands of the western pacific popularly known as the pointed gourd, parval/parwal (Hindi), or potol (Assamese, Oriya or Bengali) and “Paror” in Marathi. It is grown widely in India, mainly in eastern parts namely, Orissa, Bengal, Assam, Bihar, and Uttar Pradesh. It is used as ingredients of soup, stew, curry, sweet or eaten with meat stuffing. Trichosanthes dioica (Roxb.) is dioecious, climber with perennial root stock. Brief description of T.dioica (Roxb.) is found in the Charaka samhita, Sushruta samhita. It has wide variety of medicinal actions, benefit for the pharmaceutical industry as a whole. It is good source of Carbohydrates, Vitamin A, and Vitamin C. During a period of few decades, many pharmacological activities in T. dioica (Roxb.), had been, explored. These researches highlighted the significance of the current plant, as a potential and effective, Antimicrobial, Ameliorative, Antidiabetic, Cholesterol lowering, Antinociceptive, Wound healing agent etc. The present review is an effort to sum up, an up-to-date pharmacological activities explored in it, plus giving an insight to explore, it further for the unexplored areas.
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