Abstract

Medicinal Properties of Natural Colourants/Dyes from Plants

Author(s): Sindhu V. Tayade, Deepika Patil, Sunita Pal & Sandeep singh Gaur

Now a days worldwide demand for natural dyes has increased due to the awareness and beneficial properties of natural dyes. The medicinal plants are widely used for curing various types of diseases .The natural dyes from these plants having several applications in textiles, cosmetics, inks, pharmaceutical paper industries etc. The natural dyes existing different shades of colours depends on metabolic functional groups. The present review, describes the information regarding the basic chemistry of plant pigments in relation to medicinal properties which may useful to further development of pharmaceutical formulations.

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