“…It is also used as antipyretic, analgesic, bitter, laxative, and nervine tonic (Chopra et al, 1958) in Ayurveda. The drug has been scientifically validated for certain pharmacological effects namely antiinflammatory (Prasad et al, 1966;Srivastava et al, 1990), uterine relaxant (Jadhav & Bhutani, 2005) and antioxidant effects. A number of phytoconstituents, α-amyrin, β-amyrin caproate, stigmasterol (Bhatnagar et al, 1972) few triterpenes morentenol acetate, morentenol, neolupenol (Chawla et al, 1991;Kaith, 1995), Ψ taraxasterol acetate (Ames et al 1954;Srivastava et al, 1990), quercetin and isorhamnetin (Bahl et al, 1968) have been isolated from the plant.…”