products for treatments. Plants have fulfilled numerous essential needs, including food, medicine, shelter, paper, and flavorings. Rauwolfia tetraphylla L., a member of the Apocynaceae family with over a thousand species of evergreen trees and shrubs, plays a vital role in traditional Indian medicine. This significant ethnobotanical plant, widely used by South Indian tribes, is known for its high therapeutic properties. It contains numerous secondary metabolites, such as reserpiline, ajmaline, yohimbine, isoreserpine, lankanescine, alstonine, deserpidine, rauvotetraphyllines, sarpagine, and aricine. Research has shown that Rauwolfia tetraphylla possesses medicinal properties effective against snakebites, as insecticides, and for treating high blood pressure, fever, helminthiasis, wound healing, cough, mental illnesses, antioxidants, diabetes, inflammation, microbial infections, cancer, piles, and vomiting. This study aims to provide updated information on the phytochemistry and medicinal uses of Rauwolfia tetraphylla.
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