Phytochemical and pharmacological activity of Aegle marmelos as a potential medicinal plant: An overview

Aegle marmelos (Linn) family rutaceae is highly reputed ayurvedic medicinal tree commonly known as the bale fruit tree, is medium sized tress growing throughout the deciduas forest of India of altitude 1200 meter. It is found whole over India, from sub-Himalayan forest, Bengal, central and south India .All the parts of the tree viz, root, leaf, trunk, fruit, are used in traditional system of medicine: root parts are used in dysentery (pravahika), dyspepsia (agnimandya), chronic diarrhea with mal absorption (graham roga). The dried roots are used in the disorder of nervous system (vatavadhjy), oedema (uotha), vomiting (chardi), and rheumatism (amavata). Various phytochemical and biological evaluations have been reported in this literature for the importance of the Aegle marmelos.