BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION, PHYTOCHEMISTRY, TRADITIONAL USES AND PHARMACOLOGY OF Cardiospermum .........

Cardiospermum halicacabum, often known as Balloon vine in English, is a member of the Sapindaceae family. It's a herbaceous climber that grows as an annual or perennial in Asia and Africa's tropical and subtropical woodlands. Flavonoids, saponins, alkaloids, tannins, proanthocyanidin, apigenin, phytosterols, triterpenes, sterols, reducing sugar, apigenin-7-O-glucuronide, 80 luteolin-7-O-glucuronide, -Arachidonic acid, chrysoberyl-O-Glucuronide, -D-glycoside, -sitosterol (rutinose and quercetin). This plant has a wide range of therapeutic qualities. Traditional practitioners use Cardiospermum halicacabum to treat or prevent a variety of diseases, including snake bites, neurological disorders, limb stiffness, and rheumatism. Dysentery, headache, and diarrhoea are treated using the stalks and leaves. It's an emetic, laxative, stomachic, diuretic, diaphoretic, and sudorific, among other things. Antidiabetic, anticancer, antimicrobial, anticonvulsant, antiulcer, mosquito repellent, antiarthritic, anxiolytic, ant-filarial, antioxidant, and hepatoprotective properties have been documented for the Cardiospermum halicacabum plant. Cardiospermum halicacabum's phytochemistry and pharmacological actions are the topic of this review.

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