Tamarindus indica L. A plant with multiple medicinal purposes

摘要: Tamarindus indica is a plant that can be used traditionally in wound healing, snake bite, abdominal pain, colds, inflammations, diarrhea, helminth infections, and fever. It may also play role as antimicrobial, antidiabetic, antiinflammatory effects on the control of satiety, playing potential treatment or prevention obesity other chronic diseases. These are probably due to presence polyphenols n-Hexacosane, eicosanoic acid, b-sitosterol, octacosanyl ferulate, 21-oxobehenic pinitol phenolic antioxidants for proanthocyanidins. T. indicus includes variety bioactive compounds leaves, seeds, bark, pulp, flowers with beneficial human health possibility application pharmaceutical industry.