Historical and Chemical profile of Pleione bulbocodioides Rolfe

Over the past decades, herbal medicine has become a thing of global significance with medicinal and economic implications .Wide spread use of herbs throughout the global has raised serious concerns over this quality, safety and efficacy .Thus exact scientific assessment has become a precondition for acceptance of herbal health claims. Pleione bulbocodioides (Orchid) is a tree, native to France, they are well adapted to cold temperatures and even frost belongs to the family Orchidaceae and is widely used in chinies herbal medicine. There are approx twenty species of pleione. The plant is used in traditional medicine for the treatment of various ailments such as antimicrobial,anticancer and antiallergic. From tubers of Pleione bulbocodioides number of phytoconstituents are isolated which has significant pharmacological activity.