PASSIFLORA FOETIDA LINN: A COMPLETE MORPHOLOGICAL AND PHYTOPHARMACOLOGICAL REVIEW

Abstract

Medicinal plants and their extracts play a vital role within the medicine system to preserve our health.  India being medico diverse country in which the traditional systems of Ayurveda, Homeopathy and Unani recognize by the importance for medicinal plant extract variable in origins.   Out of 2000 medicinal plants, which are recognized and are used throughout the system, Passiflora sp is one of them. Many species of Passiflora have been used in therapeutic practice, but rare as Passiflora foetida has been described as a passion flower and has been used in treatment of some disease like as anxiety, insomnia, convulsion, sexual dysfunction, cough and cancer.  The purpose of this article is to bring together scattered over, literature in respect to minor species Passiflora foetida L.  a passion fruit  and also detail exploration of morphology and photo-pharmacological properties as a sincere attempt to provide  a direction for research.