Cardiovascular diseases are increasingly becoming one of the leading diseases causing morbidity and mortality in Uganda. Ethnographic evidence suggests that these diseases are often first managed by indigenous and related herbs before patients are referred for allopathic forms of management. One such herb of interest is Nerium oleander. Therefore the crude ethanolic extracts of the dried leaves...

Four major compounds were separated and identified from the methanol extracts of Nerium indicum flowers (Arali) using HPLC and mass spectral data. Through mass data, the chemical structures were elucidated as: trans5-O-caffeoylquinic acid (1), quercetin-3-O- rutinoside (2), luteolin-5-O-rutinoside (3) and luteolin-7-O-rutinoside (4). In addition, the cis isomers of 5-O-caffeoylquinic acid in Ne...

background and objectives:use of non-chemical treatments (medicinal plants) is a novel approach in the treatment of diabetes.this study was conducted with the aim of determining the effect of combined hydroalcoholicextract of medicinal plants on the treatment of diabetes in normal and diabetic male rats and its comparison with the effect of glibenclamide. methods:thirty-six male rats were rando...

The present study investigates the efficacy of AnvirzelTM, an extract of Nerium oleander, in more than 35 different human cancer cell lines, including all the types of tumours. Assays that have been used in order to measure the efficacy of AnvirzelTM in 24, 48 and 72h of incubation in 37 different cancer cell lines, were viability assays [Methyl-Tetrazolium dye (MTT), Crystal violet staining (C...