“…This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). used in popular medicine as a result of their hypoglycemic (Silva and Filho, 2002;Parekh et al, 2006;Murillo et al, 2007;Silva et al, 2007), anti-cholesterol, anti-elephantiasis (Silva et al, 2007), antibacterial (Silva and Filho, 2002;Parekh et al, 2006), anti-tumor (Rajkapoor et al, 2003), antifungal (Silva and Filho, 2002;Rajkapoor et al, 2003), diuretic, tonic, depurative activities (Pizzolatti et al, 2003), while also being useful against skin diseases and ulcers (Reddy et al, 2003) in bronchitis, leprosy (Rajkapoor et al, 2003), and in the management of inflammatory diseases (Silva and Filho, 2002;Rao et al, 2008).…”