A comprehensive review on phytochemistry, nutritional and pharmacological properties of Momordica charantia

is known as the bitter gourd or melon and a member of family Cucurbitaceae. It medicinal plant its fruit consumed food also. This grown in tropical well subtropical areas around world, mainly Asia, India, China, South America Brazil. Due to presence bioactive compounds like charantin, α-momorcharin cucurbitacins, some which possess potent biological actions, this used folk medicine all over world has many pharmacological activities, antidiabetic, anticancerous, antimicrobial, antioxidant, antiviral, antimalarial, antihelmintic etc. been traditional various diseases treatments syphilis, rheumatism, gout, illness liver spleen. But famous for effectiveness treatment diabetes due polypeptide-p also p-insulin very similarity function against diabetes.