Phytochemicals and antiviral properties of five dominant medicinal plant species in Bankura district, West Bengal: An overview

In current years, the pandemic of viral diseases have been spreading worldwide, which causes death in humans globally. It leads to the scientific community to investigate on the antiviral phytochemicals against viral diseases. Medicinal herbs possess a variety of phytochemicals that harbour antiviral properties, which are advantages over conventional drug therapy due to their broad therapeutic potency and minimum or no adverse effects. Medicinal plants synthesize and possess a variety of biochemical products useful for therapeutic use, helps in inhibition of viruses. Based on this basis, literature search, discussion with local authority and online search were performed, which helped to identify five most dominant plant species in Bankura District, West Bengal, having bioactive compound and antiviral properties. This mini-review provides information of those five dominant Ayurvedic medicinal plants for their broad spectrum medicinal values in general and effect on viral infections in particular.