Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
*Corresponding Author Email: choudharynamrta@gmail.com
Online published on 5 February, 2014.
Cannabis sativa L. is dioecious, an aromatic annual flowering herb with height ranging from 1 to 5 meter family Cannabiaceae. This paper presents a review on chemical composition of C.sativa. C.sativa contains various chemical constituents such as terpenoids, flavonoids, carbohydrates, fatty acids, hydrocarbon and various other chemical compounds which responsible for treating diverse diseases such as treating migraine, epilepsy, malaria, glaucoma, nausea from chemotherapy, for improving appetite in patients with cancer, AIDS, and anorexia nervosa and for suppressing muscular spasms in multiple sclerosis etc.
Cannabis sativa, phytochemistry, cannabinoids, non-cannabinoids
