title: Bryophytes: Hoard of remedies, an ethno-medicinal review.
abstract: Bryophytes are the second largest group of land plants after angiosperms. There is very less knowledge available about medicinal properties of these plants. Bryophytes are popular remedy among the tribal people of different parts of the world. Tribal people use these plants to cure various ailments in their daily lives. Bryophytes are used to cure hepatic disorders, skin diseases, cardiovascular diseases, used as antipyretic, antimicrobial, wound healing and many more other ailments by different tribal communities of Africa, America, Europe, Poland, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, Japan, Taiwan, Pakistan, China, Nepal and different parts of South, North and Eastern India. Apart from ethno-medicinal uses some bryophytes possesses antitumor activities against different cancer cell lines and this property of bryophytes needs to be more focused in the future. Compile information about medicinal properties and anticancer properties of bryophytes is lacking till date. In the present review, the authors tried to compile all the ethno-medicinal and other related information of bryophytes and fill the knowledge lacuna in this particular field. Some published reviews are available but the information is segregated. This manuscript will help people doing research in the bryophytes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology Pantnagar, Pantnagar, 263145, Uttarakhand, India.
authors.forename: Satish
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chandra
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology Pantnagar, Pantnagar, 263145, Uttarakhand, India.
authors.forename: Dinesh
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Chandra
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetic & Plant Breeding, Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology Pantnagar, Pantnagar, 263145, Uttarakhand, India.
authors.forename: Anupam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Barh
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology Pantnagar, Pantnagar, 263145, Uttarakhand, India.
authors.lastname: Pankaj
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology Pantnagar, Pantnagar, 263145, Uttarakhand, India.
authors.forename: Raj Kumar
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Pandey
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology Pantnagar, Pantnagar, 263145, Uttarakhand, India.
authors.forename: Ishwar Prakash
authors.initials: IP
authors.lastname: Sharma
keywords: Anti cancer; Hepatic disorder; Hornworts; Liverworts; Mosses