A Review on Phytochemical and Pharmacological Potential of Family Orchidaceae

Abstract

Orchidaceae family has huge therapeutic potential. Orchid plants are utilised as therapeutics since ancient times. Various plants of Orchidaceae are used as

Dendrobium sp.: In vitro Propagation of Genetically Stable Plants and Ethnomedicinal Uses

“…Dendrobiums are also applied in Indian Ayurveda medicine with D. alpestre as a source of "Jewanti" and D. teretifolium, D. macraei, D. densiflorum, D. fimbriatum, and D. discolor in the management of dysentery, pain, pimples, skin eruption, liver upset, nervous debility, asthma, bronchitis, throat trouble, and fever and is used as an aphrodisiac [33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41]. Many Dendrobiums have rich contents of phytochemical compounds such as gigantol, moscatilin, dendrobinae, mucilage, dendrobine, denbinobine, dendroside derivatives, nobilin D, nobilin E and nobilone in D. nobile [31,42,43]; dendromoniliside derivatives, moniliformin, 4-phenanthrenequinone, and daucosterol in D. monoliforme [44,45]; dibutyl phthalate, ethyl haematommate, methyl B-orcinol carboxylate, N-docosyl trans-ferulate, and ferulaldehyde in D. longicornu [1]; jebantine and jibantic acid in D. macraei [1,46]; flavanthrin, coelonin, iusianthridin, moscatin, gigantol, dibutyl phthalate, and P-hydroxyphenylpropionic methyl ester in D. aphyllum [1]; dendrocandin derivatives, amotin, amoenin, flaccidin, and 3,4-dihydroxy-5,4 dimethoxybibenzyl in D. candidum [1,47]; crepidine, crepidamine, and dendrocrepine in D. crepidatum [43]; homoeridictyol, scoparone, bibenzyl, densiflorol, cypripedin, gigantol, moscatilin, tristin, naringenin, homoeriodictyol, moscatin, and scoparone in D. densiflorum [1,48]; isoamoenylin, amoenylin and moscatilin in D. amoenum [1,49]; rotundatin, moscatin, moscatilin, and scopoletin in D. moschatum [50]. The presence of the diverse alkaloids, flavonoids, and glycosides in Dendrobiums makes them highly important medicinal herbs with antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, anticancer, antioxidative, and antiviral properties [51].…”

A comprehensive review on ethnobotanical applications and pharmacological activities of Acampe praemorsa (Roxb.) Blatt. & McCann (Orchidaceae)

“…Inflorescence corymbose (several, 3-4cm), much shorter when compared to leaves. Flowers are clustered (8)(9)(10)(11)(12), fragrant, long-lasting, are densely arranged and approximately 1.2cm across. Petals and sepals subequal, yellow, barred with red.…”

Etnofarmacología, bioactividad y fitoquímica de <i>Maxillaria densa</i> Lindl. Revisión científica y biocomercio en el neotrópico

“…Lógicamente, todos aquellos sitios con alta diversidad biológica, como el hotspot de la zona neotropical centroamericana (Myers et al, 2000), contienen una gran fuente de nuevos fármacos y otras sustancias valiosas para la salud humana. La familia Orchidaceae representa una parte importante de la biodiversidad local y ya existen algunos estudios sobre su potencial terapéutico (Ng et al, 2012;Arora et al, 2017a;Cakova et al, 2017).…”