Review Article
    Pharmacognosy Reviews
    Vol. 8
    Issue 16
    2014
    pp. 101-104
    Open Access

    Rubus fruticosus (blackberry) use as an herbal medicine

    Rameshwar Verma1,Tushar Gangrade1,Rakesh Punasiya1,Chetan Ghulaxe1
    1G.R.Y. Institute of Pharmacy, “Vidhya Vihar” Borawan, Khargone, Madhya Pradesh, INDIA.
    Correspondence:

    *Rameshwar Verma

    G.R.Y. Institute of Pharmacy, “Vidhya Vihar” Borawan, Khargone, Madhya Pradesh, INDIA.

    ramv0164@gmail.com

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    Published:20/06/2014
    Received: 28/10/2013
    Accepted: 10/06/2014

    Abstract

    Wild grown European blackberry Rubus fruticosus) plants are widespread in different parts of northern countries and have been extensively used in herbal medicine. The result show that European blackberry plants are used for herbal medicinal purpose such as antimicrobial, anticancer, antidysentery, antidiabetic, antidiarrheal, and also good antioxidant. Blackberry plant (R. fruticosus) contains tannins, gallic acid, villosin, and iron; fruit contains vitamin C, niacin (nicotinic acid), pectin, sugars, and anthocyanins and also contains of berries albumin, citric acid, malic acid, and pectin. Some selected physicochemical characteristics such as berry weight, protein, pH, total acidity, soluble solid, reducing sugar, vitamin C, total antioxidant capacity, antimicrobial screening of fruit, leaves, root, and stem of R. fruticosus, and total anthocyanins of four preselected wild grown European blackberry (R. fruticosus) fruits are investigated. Significant differences on most of the chemical content detect among the medicinal use. The highest protein content (2%), the genotypes with the antioxidant activity of standard butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) studies 85.07%. Different cultivars grown in same location consistently show differences in antioxidant capacity.

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    Keywords

    Anticancer
    antidiabetic
    antidysentery
    antimicrobial
    antioxidant
    blackberry
    phototherapeutics
    R. fruticosus
    rosaceae
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