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Pharmacological Activities and Progress in Structure Modification of Salidroside

Salidroside is a phenylpropanoid glycoside isolated from Rhodiola rosea L., a traditional Chinese medicinal (TCM) plant, and has displayed a broad spectrum of pharmacological properties, such as resisting anoxia, antiradiation and antifatigue. In addition, it has low toxicity as traditional Chinese medicinal plant. However, the bioavailability of salidroside is low because of its instability fo...

Chemical composition, pharmacological activities of Eclipta alba

World Health Organization appreciated the importance of medicinal plants for public health care in developing nations. Eclipta alba ( Bhringaraja ) having important role in the traditional Ayurvedic and Unani systems of holistic health and herbal medicine of the east.The principal constituents of Eclipta alba are coumestan derivatives like wedololactone[1.6%], demethylwedelolactone, desmethyl-w...

Chemical compositions, chromatographic fingerprints and antioxidant activities of Andrographis Herba.

This paper describes the development of an HPLC-UV-MS method for quantitative determination of andrographolide and dehydroandrographolide in Andrographis Herba and establishment of its chromatographic fingerprint. The method was validated for linearity, limit of detection and quantification, inter- and intra-day precisions, repeatability, stability and recovery. All the validation results of qu...

Chemical composition and pharmacological activities of Pisum sativum

BACKGROUND Consumption of vegetables has been proven to be effective in the prevention of different diseases. Traditionally edible aerial part of Pisum sativum L. subsp. sativum (Fabaceae) is used to treat diabetes, heart diseases and as blood purifier. Present study was aimed to explore the traditional use of aerial parts of P. sativum as a source of antidiabetic agent. In addition, antioxidan...

Isolation and Characterisation of Anti-diabetic Pharmacological Activities of Phytoestrogens