Abstract:
Crateva adansonii DC. is a tree belonging to the Capparaceae family. In traditional medicine, it is
used to cure several disorders including constipation, earache, fevers, itch, malaria, rheumatic pains,
and snakebites. Furthermore, phytochemicals including daucosterol, phytol, pyropheophorbide A,
suramin, and ψ-taraxasterol have been isolated from different parts of C. adansonii. This review
paper objects to scrutinize, recap, and document the reported bioactivity studies of C. adansonii.
ScienceDirect, Web of Science, Semantic Scholar, Scopus, and PubMed were utilized to detect the
applicable published works from 1900 to June 2021. Up to now, in vivo and in vitro scientific
evidence is available for various bioactivities. In addition, analgesic, antiarthritic, antibacterial,
anticancer, antifungal, antiinflammatory, antimalarial, antioxidant, and antiprotozoal activities have
been observed for various parts of this plant. This work supports a detail information related to this
plant for further studies in the future.
