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Anthocephalus cadamba (family: Rubiaceae) is also known as kadamb. It is huge evergreen tree with large leaves and beautiful ball shaped flower and fruit. It is natural ayurvedic remedy which is use for medicinal purpose in several countries such as china, India and Egypt. Many pharmaceutical companies currently conducting extensive research on plant material for their potential medicinal value. The kadamb possess significant pharmacological properties for various hopeless disorder due to presence of variety of chemical constituents in them. The therapeutic uses of its flower, root, bark, leaves and stem against the various disorder like diabetic mellitus, diarrhoea, fever, inflammation, haemoptysis, cough, vomiting, wound healing, ulcer and also useful for snake bite. The major chemical constituents of the plant are triterpenes, triterpenoid glycoside, flavonoid, saponin, indole alkaloids, cadambine, isocadambine, isodihydrocadambine. In this article we review the pharmacognostic and pharmacological studies of Anthocephalus cadamba.