Physicochemical and Pharmacological Activity of Eclipta Alba: Review

Natural medicines play an important role in each country's system of public health care. The Siddha and unani systems employ 599-699 plants for medicinal reasons. With its comprehensive and methodological approach supported by experimental foundation, conventional wisdom may serve as a new and robust natural 5-reductase inhibitor discovered. Bhringraj is crucial in overall health and in ancient Ayurvedic and Unani medicine systems from the East. The primary ingredients of coumestan derivatives include Eclipta alba. Such as vedololactone [1.7 percent], dimethylvedololactone and dimethylvedololactone. Other ingredients include ecliptal, -amirin, stigmasterol etc. Bhringraj is used as an, antimycotoxic, antihemorrhagic, and anti-blackening hair and growth booster. As a result of the plant's importance in the medical field, as well as its aesthetic and therapeutic uses, its extraction is important. An alcoholic extract of Bhringraj was reported to be non-toxic in rat and mice, when the minimum fatal dosage is more than 2.0 gram/kilogram administered orally and intra-peritoneally in rats. This article discusses the main ingredients, extraction process, phytochemistry, and bioactivity.