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Ethnobotanical uses and phytochemical, biological, and toxicological profiles of Datura metel L.: A review

2023; Elsevier BV; Volume: 4; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.crtox.2023.100106

2666-027X

Tawhida Islam, Iffat Ara, Tariqul Islam, Pankaj Kumar Sah, Ray Silva de Almeida, Edinardo Fágner Ferreira Matias, Cícero Lucas Gomes Ramalho, Henrique Douglas Melo Coutinho, Muhammad Torequl Islam,

Natural Products and Biological Research

Datura metel L., a recognized poisonous plant in the Solanaceae family, is widely distributed in the world. Traditionally, D. metel is used in many diseases, including neurological and heart diseases; fever; catarrh; pain; diarrhea; skin diseases; chronic bronchitis; asthma; digestive disorders; and so on. It possesses many important phytochemicals that can be used to treat various types of diseases. This review aims at summarizing the traditional uses, phytochemical, biological, and toxicological profiles of D. metel based on the database reports. For this, an up-to-date (till March 20, 2023) search was made in the databases: PubMed, Google Scholar, Science Direct, Scopus, and MedLine, with relevant keywords for the published evidence. Findings suggest that the plant has many traditional uses, such as a cure for madness, epilepsy, psoriasis, heart diseases, diarrhea, mad dog bites, indigestion, etc. It possesses various important phytochemicals, including withanolides, daturaolone, datumetine, daturglycosides, ophiobolin A, baimantuoluoline A, and many others. D. metel has many important biological activities, including antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial, insecticidal, anti-cancer, anti-diabetic, analgesic, anti-pyretic, neurological, contraceptive, and wound healing capacity. In conclusion, the toxic plant, D. metel, can be considered a potential source of phyto-therapeutic lead compounds.