Kityania Sibashish, Talukdar Anupam Das, Nath Rajat, Nath Deepa, Choudhury Manabendra Dutta, Nizamee Abu Md Hassan, Patra Jayanta Kumar
Department of Life Science and Bioinformatics, Assam University, Silchar, India.
Department of Botany, Guru Charan College, Silchar-4, India.
Comb Chem High Throughput Screen. 2023;26(5):880-891. doi: 10.2174/1386207325666220524142858.
Indian Arrowroot (Curcuma angustifolia Roxb) belonging to the Zingiberaceae family is widely distributed in India and some parts of Nepal, Thailand, Bangladesh and Pakistan. It is traditionally used as medicine for treating various diseases and also used as food. Few data are available about its application in pharmacology and therapeutics. Literature search for related contents, keywords such as "Curcuma angustifolia Roxb", "traditional food", "ethnomedicine", "pharmacology", "phytochemicals", "pharmacological activities" were used in search engines including PubMed, Google Scholar, Scopus, ScienceDirect, and Semantic Scholar. Secondary metabolites found in Indian Arrowroot include essential oils, alkaloids, flavonoids, terpenoids, phytosterols, terpenes, phenols, and others. Pharmacological activities such as antioxidant, antiinflammatory, anti-proliferative, anti-ulcerogenic, hepatoprotective, and anti-cancerous activities have been shown by Indian Arrowroot (Curcuma angustifolia Roxb). The presence of nutritional value and pharmaceutical potential gained demand in the various food production industries and pharmacology research. It may play a vital role in future studies of Curcuma angustifolia Roxb as ethnomedicine and further exploitation in pharmacological studies.
狭叶莪术（Curcuma angustifolia Roxb）属于姜科，广泛分布于印度以及尼泊尔、泰国、孟加拉国和巴基斯坦的部分地区。它传统上被用作治疗各种疾病的药物，也被用作食物。关于其在药理学和治疗学方面的应用，现有数据较少。通过在包括PubMed、谷歌学术、Scopus、ScienceDirect和Semantic Scholar在内的搜索引擎中使用“狭叶莪术（Curcuma angustifolia Roxb）”、“传统食物”、“民族医学”、“药理学”、“植物化学物质”、“药理活性”等关键词来搜索相关内容。狭叶莪术中发现的次生代谢产物包括精油、生物碱、黄酮类化合物、萜类化合物、植物甾醇、萜烯、酚类等。狭叶莪术（Curcuma angustifolia Roxb）已显示出抗氧化、抗炎、抗增殖、抗溃疡、保肝和抗癌等药理活性。其营养价值和药用潜力的存在使其在各种食品生产行业和药理学研究中受到需求。它可能在狭叶莪术作为民族医学的未来研究以及药理学研究的进一步开发中发挥重要作用。
