Comprehensive Review on Pistacia integerrima (Karka-Shringi): A Medicinal Plant with its Phytoconstituents, Ethnomedicinal Uses and Pharmacological Activities

Due to their broad range of therapeutic potential, low cost, and comparatively less side effects than manufactured medications, medicinal plants gained significant attention, among medicinal plant Pistacia integerrima has considered more attraction towards because it is rich in phytochemicals. Pistacia integerrima contain many phytochemical and secondary metabolites like flavonoids, alpha-pinene, sterols, terpenoids, kaempferol, catechins, fisetin, m-cymene, fenchyl alcohol, tannins, di-limonene, caprylic acid. The plant is used for many therapeutic activity antibacterial, anti-cancer, anti-asthmatic, anti-fungal, muscle-relaxant activity. Traditionally gall of the plant is used in numerous diseases like in fever, cough, dysentery, snake bite and diarrhoea. The aim of the study is to present medicinal importance, pharmacological activity of Pistacia integerrima.