Preliminary Phytochemical Appraisal of Selected Medicinal Plants

Preliminary phytochemical screening of selected Medicinal Plants

Pharmacological and Phytochemical Appraisal of Selected Medicinal Plants from Jordan with Claimed Antidiabetic Activities

Plant species have long been regarded as possessing the principal ingredients used in widely disseminated ethnomedical practices. Different surveys showed that medicinal plant species used by the inhabitants of Jordan for the traditional treatment of diabetes are inadequately screened for their therapeutic/preventive potential and phytochemical findings. In this review, traditional herbal medic...

Antimycobacterial evaluation and preliminary phytochemical investigation of selected medicinal plants traditionally used in Mozambique.

ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE Several medicinal plants are traditionally used in Mozambique to treat tuberculosis and related symptoms. AIMS OF THE STUDY It was aimed to assess the in vitro antimycobacterial activity of crude extracts from fifteen medicinal plants and to reveal main classes of compounds which may account for the activity of extracts. METHODS AND MATERIALS The plant materia...

Preliminary Phytochemical and Anti-Bacterial studies on Flowers of selected medicinal plants

The present study was aimed to evaluate the phytochemical constituents and antibacterial activity of the flower extracts of Albizia lebbeck, Cordia sebestena, Thunbergia grandiflora and Antigonon leptopus. Preliminary phytochemical screening was done by the standard methods described by Harborne. Antibacterial study was carried out by disc diffusion method. The results of the phytochemical anti...

Preliminary phytochemical screening of some Indian Medicinal Plants

Alkaloids, tannins, saponins, steroid, terpenoid, flavonoids, phenolic compounds and cardie glycoside distribution in five medicinal plants belonging to different families were assessed and compared. The medicinal plants investigated were Asteracantha longifolia (L.) Nees, Psassiflora edulis Sims, Berberis tinctoria Lesch, Sphaeranthus indicus Linn, and Solanum trilobatum Linn. All the plants w...