Pharmocognostical and phytochemical evaluation of stem of Cynodon dactylon

Abstract

Cynodon dactylon (Family: Poaceae), a common weed in the fields have been used in Ayurvedic and Unani medicines to cure various ailments. Its anatomical adaptations are made them to survive in any drastic environmental condition which made to pursue the present investigation on its anatomy, pharmocognostical features, including macroscopic, microscopic features, physico chemical parameters of aerial constituents and phytochemical screening in the preliminary level.