• PHARMACOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE OF MUSA SPECIES – A REVIEW

Abstract

Plants based traditional systems of medicines are playing an important role in majority of countries for providing health care to large section of population. It is an important fact that traditional systems of medicines always played an important role in meeting the global health care needs. Many Indian plants have been quoted to be useful as medicinal agents. They are effective with fewer side effects and are also inexpensive. Traditional medicine using herbal drugs exists in every part of the world. The major areas are Indian, Chinese and European traditions.

Traditional healers and pharmacists in developing countries are in important source of information about plant sources of new drugs. Only a fraction of the earth's natural pharmacopoeia has been analyzed with modern techniques. Banana plants (Musa species) are of the family Musaceae. They are economic, easily available and found native to the tropical region.