PHARMACOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES OF TERMINALIA ARJUNA: AN OVERVIEW.

Plants have utilized seeing as ancient times of heal and cure illness and to improve health and wellbeing. Aryurveda is one of the traditional medicinal System of Indian. Ayurveda involves the use of natural elements to eliminate the root cause of the disease by restoring balance at the same time create a long recorded history and they were used in ancient Chinese, Greek, Egyptian and Indian medicine for various therapies purposes. Terminalia arjuna belonging to family combretaceae is an important medicinal plant found as a weed through out India. Though almost all of its parts are used in traditional system of medicines. This review summarized the plant characteristics with their pharmacological activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]