AN OVERVIEW OF MOMORDICA CHARANTIA: A NEUTRACEUTICAL APPROACH FOR DEPRESSION

The Cucurbitaceae family, which includes Momordicacharantia Linn. (M. Charantia), has a widely geographical distribution throughout tropicaly and subtropicaly areas in the world. Since ancient times, its fruit used for vegetable diet, herbal therapy and is utilised in drugs to cure diabetes mellitus. These phytochemicals include proteins, polysaccharides along with flavonoids , few triterpenes, saponins, ascorbic acid and a number of steroids. This plant also contains steroids , proteins , ascorbic acid , Polysaccharides, saponins, flavonoids. According to reports, M. Charantia exhibits a variety of biological activities, including those that are hepatoprotective, anticancer, antibacterial, antiviral, antitumor, immunomodulating, antioxidant, ant-diabetic, ant-helmintic, anti-ulcer,anti-inflammatory, studies conducted in vivo and vitro have shown that, M. Charantia may also have toxicity or harmful actions depending on the situation. This current review article, chemical components of MomordicaCharantia.