A pharmacological comprehensive review on chenopodium album l

Chenopodium album (L.) of the family Chenopodiaceae distributed worldwide including India includes about 250 species. On the basis of these herbal characters, the Chenopodium plant is traditionally used as herbal medicine to cure various disorders like abdominal pains, eye disease, throat troubles, piles, diseases of the blood, heart and spleen and biliousness etc. The plant is a source of the variety of phyto-constituents like flavonoid as phenolic amide, saponin, cinnamic acid amide, alkaloid chinoalbicin, apocortinoid, xyloside, phenols and lignans, protein, carbohydrates, suberin, glucoside, flavin and traces amount of oil and sugars etc. The plant extracts from the different parts having different pharmacological activities such as antioxidant potential, antimicrobial, antipruriticlaxative, aphrodisiac action, antinociceptive, anthelmintic, antinutritional and functional potential for human diet etc. This review article reveals the comprehensive account of the cytomorphological, phytochemical constituents, ethnobotanical inputs and pharmacological activities including the immense medicinal and functional food potential of this plant.