Microsorum punctatum
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Microsorum punctatum is a medicinal fern. Juice extracted from the fronds (leaves) of the fern is used as purgative, diuretic, and wound healing agents. [1]
Water extract of the fern was found to have alpha-glucosidase inhibitory activity and cytotoxicity against a human chronic myelogenous leukemia cell line (K562).[2]
References
- ^ Sharma UK, Pegu S. Ethnobotany of religious and supernatural beliefs of the Mising tribes of Assam with special reference to the 'Dobur Uie'. J Ethnobiol Ethnomedicine 2011; 7(1): 16.
- ^ Chai TT, Yeoh LY, Mohd Ismail NI, Ong HC, Wong FC (2015) Cytotoxicity and antiglucosidase potential of six selected edible and medicinal ferns. Acta Poloniae Pharmaceutica - Drug Research. 72(2): 397-401.
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