MEDICINAL USES OF VITIS VINIFERA IN UNANI SYSTEM OF MEDICINE: AN OVERVIEW
Dr. Zeshan Haider Rizvi*, Mohd Naime, Jamal Akhtar and Maqbool Ahmad Khan
ABSTRACT
Grape (Vitis vinifera) are known as angoor in Unani and draakshaa in Ayurvedic system of medicine. Vitis vinifera is a eternal woody, climbing shrub or more rarely a tree belongs to family Vitaceae. Grapes are mostly used as fresh fruit, dried fruit, wine and juice production but due to its medicinal properties it is use in treatment of many diseases such as bawaseer (piles), Chronic bronchitis, hepatopathy, faqr-ud-dam (anaemia), dyspepsia etc. Recent studies on vitis vinefera shows that it have antioxidant, antimicrobial, analgesic and anti-inflammatory properties. Grape vine contains biflovonoids (Vitamin P), thiamine, niacin, Procyanidins B1 and B2 etc. It is cultivated extensively in north western India specially Bengal, Himachal and Andra Pradesh.
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