MEDICINAL PLANTS OF WEST MIDNAPORE, INDIA: EMPHASIS ON PHYTOCHEMICAL CONTAINMENT HAVING ROLE ON ORAL CANCER 

ABSTRACT

West Midnapore district, West Bengal of India is mostly covered with forests. A plant of these forests provides livelihood for the native people. The plantations are often conserved as sacred groves. The plants are utilized as source of foods, medicines and they are mostly involved in forest based product preparation and selling for their existence. They are mostly poor, uneducated and use local made tobacco product to reduce hunger which often causes oral cancer. The nature can fight with the situation.  Precious natural molecules present in the plants of the forest as well as of the area can be judiciously used for the deadly disease itself. In this paper we have tried to search cheap trx canada for sale out those phytochemicals that can be obtained from the plants of this area and have previously documented chemopreventive and curative property on oral cancer may be due to the containment of many flavonoids, phenolic acids and carotenoids.

Key words: Carotenoids, Flavonoids, Herbal medicine, Phenolic acids.