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2Department of Botany, Tagore Arts College, Puducherry- 605 008, India
The traditional medical practitioners use many common plants and weeds to treat number of diseases. One such medicinal plant is Achyranthes aspera L. It possesses variety of uses in healing human diseases including asthma, cough; and acts as antiphlegmatic, antiperiodic, diuretic, purgative, laxative, oedema, dropsy, piles, boils, eruptions of skin, snake bites and moreover used as tooth brush. Secondary metabolites of medical importance have been isolated from this plant grown in vivo. At this juncture it is worth to discuss in vitro culture studies of this valuable plant. This would help the scientists to micropropagate and protect this plant species in addition to providing an opportunity to extract active metabolites. The present review is aimed at the documentation of developments made in cloning of A. aspera.
