Pharmacological and Phytochemical review of Terminalia Bellerica

World Health Organization (WHO) has promoted the study of the healing potential of plants for diseases where safe allopathic drugs are not available. Terminalia bellerica, also known as Beleric Myrobalan and part of the Combretaceae family, is a large deciduous tree. It has thick brownish-gray bark with shallow longitudinal cracks and can grow to a height of 20 to 30 meters. This tree is found growing wild across the Indian subcontinent, Sri Lanka, and Southeast Asia, up to 1,200 meters in elevation and in various ecological settings. The chemical compounds extracted from different parts of the plant include alkaloids, coumarin, flavones, steroids, tannins, glycosides, terpenoids, and saponins. Terminalia bellerica has demonstrated a wide range of medicinal properties, such as analgesic effects, antibiofilm activity, anticancer traits, antidepressant effects, antidiabetic properties, antidiarrheal effects, anti-ulcer properties, immunomodulatory effects, antispasmodic and bronchodilator effects, antifertility properties, antihypertensive effects, along with antifungal, antimicrob