A survey is made on the medicinal spices of the Nilgiris. Totally, there are 25 species available in various parts of the Nilgiris and they belong to 16 different families of angiosperms. Gudalur, Kothagiri, Kookalthorai, Aruvankadu, Coonoor, Burliar, Masinagudi and Ootacamund are some of the important places in the Nilgiris have a variety of medicinal properties that are put to use in homoeopa...

Berberine-containing plants are used medicinally in virtually all traditional medical systems, and have a history of usage in Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine dating back at least 3,000 years. Berberine has demonstrated significant antimicrobial activity against bacteria, fungi, protozoans, viruses, helminths and chlamydia. In addition, berberine’s actions include: antagonism of the effects of ch...

Background & Objective: Ayurveda, the “Mother of all healing”, has existed for over 5,000 years and hence is considered to be oldest healing science. Ayurveda states that mind can heal transform a person's whole being as body are associated. Herbs heart Ayurvedic belief. They used boost defense against diseases viruses keep brain, body, soul in complete balance. Although ayurvedic medicines...

Nowadays it is a wide spread belief on the part of the general public that natural substances are inherently superior to synthetic substances and have played a mainstream role in the health care system for the prevention of diseases. A study of ancient ayurvedic literature has claimed that Asparagus racemosus have numerous medicinal and therapeutic properties like phytoestrogenic, antidepressan...

Andrographis paniculata nees (Acanthaceae) is a medicinal plant traditionally used for the treatment of anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antioxidant, antiparasitic, antispasmodic, antidiabatic, anti carcinogenic, antipyretic, antidiarrhoeal, hepatoprotective, nematocidal, antiHIV and several infectious diseases ranging from malaria to dysentery. The plant is widely used in ayurvedic and homeop...

Alstonia scholaris is a traditionally important medicinal plant. This evergreen tree is native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asian countries. The plant is used in traditional, Ayurvedic, Unani, Homoeopathy and Sidhha/Tamil types of alternative medicinal systems against different ailments such as asthma, malaria, fever, dysentery, diarrhea, epilepsy, skin diseases, snakebite etc. Amon...

Therapeutic or medicinal plants are very beneficial for economic and therapeutic purposes. These plants contain active constituents which are used for the rehabilitation of many human diseases. These constituents are isolated and used against various pathogens[1,2]. Cichorium intybus (C. intybus ) seeds have been successfully used in Ayurvedic and Unani systems of medicine. It is one of the imp...

Orchidaceae is the second largest family of flowering plants with nearly 35,000 species in more than 850 genera. The whole family is endangered of survival due to habitat loss, fragmentation of populations, genetic drift and huge anthropogenic pressures. The Chinese were the first to cultivate and describe orchids for their medicinal uses. Theophrastus reported the medicinal properties of orchi...

Corresponding Author: Ashok D.B. Vaidya Kasturba Health Society, Advanced Centre of Reverse Pharmacology (ICMR) 17, Khandubhai Desai Road, Vile Parle (West), Mumbai, 400 056, India Email: [email protected] Abstract: The current scenario of drug discovery and development is facing a model perturbation, despite significant advances in genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, combinatorial chemistry and...