The role of Justicia adathoda in Traditional Medicine – Review

Suba Priya V1, Chandika P1, Divya S1, Rajkumar K2 and Palpperumal S3*
1UG Student, PG & Research Department of Microbiology, Virudhunagar Hindu Nadar’s Senthikumara Nadar College, Virudhunagar, Tamil Nadu.
2PG Student, PG & Research Department of Microbiology, Virudhunagar Hindu Nadar’s Senthikumara Nadar College, Virudhunagar, Tamil Nadu.
3Head & Assistant Professor, PG & Research Department of Microbiology, Virudhunagar Hindu Nadar’s Senthikumara Nadar College, Virudhunagar, Tamil Nadu.
*Corresponding Author Email: palpperumal.s@vhnsnc.edu.in
Keywords: Justicia adathoda, natural product
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Abstract

An extensive collection of cures for human problems has been made available by nature. Approximately 80% of people worldwide rely entirely or partially on traditional medicine for their basic care. As a result, during the past 20 years, there has been a significant increase in interest worldwide in the study and use of crude drugs due to growing awareness of the toxicity and side effects of synthetic drugs, their limitations in many therapeutic areas, their relatively high cost, and the fact that they are frequently out of reach for the average person. Since interest in herbal therapy has grown globally, standardizing herbal medications is currently the most desirable course of action. Many people use traditional remedies all throughout the world. Consequently Herbal remedies are becoming more and more significant economically. In order to determine the validity of commercial samples on the market and to identify adulterants or substitutes, pharmacognosy thus seems to be very valuable. Justicia adathoda is used to cure a variety of illnesses, and the number of medicinal formulations created by Vaidya’s positively correlates with the number of disorders to be evaluated.

Citation

Suba Priya, V., Chandika, P., Divya, S., Rajkumar, K., & Palpperumal, S. (2026). The role of Justicia adathoda in Traditional Medicine – Review. International Journal of Current Science Research (IJCSR) , 12.1, 15–21.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18757437

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© 2026 The Author(s). Published by Dr. BGR Publications . The authors retain copyright of this article. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.

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