Phytochemical, Biological and Traditional Claims on Averrhoa bilimbi: An Overview

Abstract

Garg et al.: Recent updates on Averrhoa bilimbi: An approachAverrhoa bilimbi is primarily utilized in traditional medicine to cure blood pressure, high levels of sugar in the blood and many infectious diseases. The key objective of the current review is to assemble and establish literature based on traditional claims and relate those with up-to-date pharmacological results on the use of Averrhoa bilimbi for managing diverse diseases. Literature was collected, systematically assessed, understood and discoursed from the various scientific databases as Scopus, PubMed and ScienceDirect by using keyword Averrhoa bilimbi. Various biological activities have confirmed the potential of Averrhoa bilimbi to act as antioxidant, antimicrobial, antidiabetic, hypotensive, anti-inflammatory and hepatoprotective which indicates the excessive worth of plant holds as complementary and alternative medicine. Consequently, it is aimed to compile a current and complete review of Averrhoa bilimbi which offsets its traditional uses as medicine, phytochemistry and biological effects.

Antihypertension Activity of Averrhoa bilimbi Fruit Juice on Sodium Chloride and Prednisone-Induced Rats

“…It is necessary to consider alternative therapies for treating hypertension using natural products [8]. One of the natural products that have the potential to be used for treating hypertension is bilimbi [9].…”

“…In Indonesia, bilimbi was known as "Belimbing Wuluh". Traditionally bilimbi has been used to treat several diseases [9,10]. Research related to the use of water stew from bilimbi to reduce hypertension has been reported before [11].…”