Dendrobium longicornu orchid has potential pharmaceutical properties in Nepal

Abhishek Konar¹ , Sajita Pokhrel² , Sunanda Halder³ , Reshmi Chatterjee⁴ , Benupraj Adhikari⁵

Section:Review Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.10 , Issue.4 , pp.37-41, Aug-2023

Online published on Aug 31, 2023

Copyright © Abhishek Konar, Sajita Pokhrel, Sunanda Halder, Reshmi Chatterjee, Benupraj Adhikari . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
 

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Abstract :
Plants provide shelter, clothing, food, flavours and fragrances. Today more people take medicine from medicinal plant. According to World Health Organization (WHO) 80% of medicine, is produced from medicinal plants. Globally, the herbal medicines market was valued at USD 170 billion in 2022, and it will reach USD 600 billion by 2033, growing 15% annually from 2023 to 2033. Dendrobium longicornu is one of the most important medicinal plants in the world. D. longicornu belong Orchidaceae family and it is largest genera in Ochidaceae. It grows on tree trunks in mountain forests as an epiphytic orchid. Commonly D. longicornu, known as the ‘Long-horned Dendrobium. It is an important traditional medicinal plant that used various disease in Asia. Mainly D. longicornu is found in the mountainous regions of Northeast India, Bhutam, Nepal, Tibet, Myanmar, and southern China. It has many bioactive compounds such as 14 - methyl- pentadecanoic acid (6.39 %) and 8 - Methyl-6-nonenoic acid 9-Hexadecyn-1-ol, 3-Heptadecanol and Pentafluoropropionatetrans-2-dodecen-1-ol. In this paper, the main aim of the study is demonstrating the antioxident, anticancer and antibacterial activities of D. longicornu.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Orchid, Traditional medicine, Antibacterial, Phytochemical, D. longicornu

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