background : mosquitoes transmit serious human diseases, causing millions of death every year. vector control is facing a threat due to the emergence of resistance to synthetic insecticides. insecticides of botanical origin may serve as suitable alternative biocontrol techniques in the future. nine different locally available medicinally important plants suspected to posse larvicidal property w...

Thespesia populnea (Malvaceae) is a large tree found in tropical regions and coastal forests of India. The bark, leaves, and flowers are useful in cutaneous infections such as scabies, psoriasis, eczema, ringworm, guinea worm and the leaves of this plant used as antiinflammatory for poultice as a folk medicine (Chang et al., 2002). Various parts of T. populnea are found to possess useful medici...

Thespesia populnea (Linn.) Soland., a member of the Malvaceae family, is medium-sized evergreen tree distributed in coastal forests India. It known for its diverse traditional uses folk medicine. This review article aims to provide comprehensive overview phytochemical and pharmacological aspects T. populnea, with focus on recent literature. The analysis reveals presence various bioactive compou...

INTRODUCTION Thespesia populnea L. (Family: Malvaceae) is a well-known medicinal plant distributed in tropical regions of the world and cultivated in South Gujarat and indicated to be useful in cutaneous affections, psoriasis, ringworm, and eczema. Bark and fruits are indicated in the diseases of skin, urethritis, and gonorrhea. The juice of fruits is employed in treating certain hepatic diseas...