A review on Lupeol: Superficial triterpenoid from horticulture crops

Abstract

Traditional systems of medicine have been progressively gaining interest and acceptance all over the world, even among the practitioners of modern medicine. Consequently plant materials and herbal drugs derived from them represent a substantial proportion and all these are supplied by horticultural crops like Fruits, vegetables, spices, medicinal crops and plantation crops. Natural products and herbal remedies used in traditional folklore medicine have been the source of many medically beneficial drugs because they elicit fewer side effects, relatively cheap, affordable and claimed to be effective. Lupeol, a triterpene found in horticulture crops like mango, grapes, strawberry and olive, some vegetables white cabbage, green pepper was reported to possess beneficial effects as a therapeutic and preventive agent for a range of disorders. It is very potential triterpene which acts against many diseases especially cancer for this purpose a large scope in the pharmaceutical industries. Lupeol exhibited an array of biological activities like anti-inflammatory, anti-arthritic, anti-mutagenic and anti-malarial activity both in in vitro and in vivo systems. So, there is a growing interest in natural triterpenoids, also known as phytosterols, due to their wide spectrum of biological activities.