• Subbulakshmi Packirisamy
• Valli Gunam
• Bettina lavanya magdaline
• Deepa Rajendiran

Plants are the important source of medicine. Herbal medicine occupied a vital position in Indian culture and folklore therapy. Despite of world industrialization and urbanization, the traditional system of medicines is still increasing and provides a remarkable contribution to the pharmaceutical industry. All parts of medicinal plants are effective in the treatment of diseases and help to discover new kinds of drugs. The plant Picrorhiza kurroa is a well-known hand medicine that belongs to the genus Picrorhiza, a member of the foxglove family, Scrophulariaceae. A bitter extract obtained from the dried rhizomes of 3–4-year-old plants has been widely used in traditional as well as a modern system of medicine as a stomachic, purgative, antiperiodic, cholagogue, cathartic, carminative, anthelminthic, antioxidant, antifungal, anti-inflammatory, cardiotonic, brain tonic. It is also used in dyspepsia, fever, asthma, flatulence, cardiac complaints, and chronic hepatitisThis aim of this is review to elicit the phytochemical and pharmacological properties of the Picrorhiza kuroa which has been searched during their detailed study.

Picrorhiza kurroa, Picroliv, Ethnopharmacology and phytopharmacology

"A PHYTOPHARMACOLOGICAL REVIEW ON AN ENDANGERED MAGICAL HERB- Picrorhiza Kurroa", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 12, page no.159-173, December-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRFI06026.pdf

"A PHYTOPHARMACOLOGICAL REVIEW ON AN ENDANGERED MAGICAL HERB- Picrorhiza Kurroa", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 12, page no. pp159-173, December-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRFI06026.pdf