Revision: Chemical and biological activities of Corchorus olitorious L.

The present study was conducted on the basis of previous chemical and biological; national and international research works on Corchorus olitorious Linn. For this, published articles, dissertations, magazines, and book reports were collected, from the past up to 2012. Aim of the work was targeted to exploit the medicinal information among both the users and non-users, benefited by this species world-wide in. Protein, lipid, calcium, iron, carotene, vitamins, folic acid and some enzymes have been reported from the leaves, still used as vegetables. Essential phytoconstituents like flavonoids, saponins, tannins, steroids, glycosides, sugars and triterpenes isolated from leaf, bark, root and seeds of the C. olitorious have been reported   for their cardiac, anti-malarial and hepato-protective activities.