© American Journal of Ethnomedicine A Review on Piper betle L.: Nature’s Promising Medicinal Reservoir.

Piper betle Linn. an important species of the Piperaceae family, is an evergreen and perennial creeper, with glossy heart-shaped leaves that are magnificent reservoirs of phenolic compounds with antiproliferative, antimutagenic, antibacterial and antioxidant properties. Phytochemical studies show that Piper betle contains a wide variety of biologically active compounds whose concentration depends on the variety of the plant species. Many research studies on Piper betle has reported that it contains important chemical constituents suc