Present study deals with the demonstration of the antibacterial activity of very common medicinal plants of Pakistani origin i.e., Phyllantus emblica, Coriandrum sativum, Culinaris medic, Lawsonia alba and Cucumis sativus. The extracts were prepared in crude form by the use of hydro-alcoholic solution and were screened for antibacterial activity against various bacterial species by disk diffusi...

Phyllanthus niruri L., a well-known medicinal plant, has been used as a folk antitumor remedy in the worldwide scale. However, the antitumor components in P. niruri have not been reported. In order to verify the antitumor components of P. niruri and the plants which have the high content of these components, we isolated the antitumor components with bioguided fraction and isolation, by differen...

Fruit spot disease of Phyllanthus emblica L. is one theproblems, which reduce the quality fruits at pre-harvest period. Fungal pathogen was isolated using tissue planting methods during November 2016 to December 2017. The fungus, Thielaviopsis paradoxa identified both morphological and molecular characterization based on internal transcribe spacer (ITS) region ribosomal DNA (rDNA). Mycelial gro...

Being the second largest manufacturing industry in India, cement industry is one of the major contributors of suspended particulate matter (SPM). Since plants are sensitive to air pollution, introducing suitable plant species as part of the greenbelt around cement industry was the objective of the present study. Suitable plant species were selected based on the Air pollution tolerance index (AP...

Indian gooseberry (Phyllanthus emblica) is a seasonal and highly nutritious fruit with shorter shelf-life astringent taste limiting its utilization. The enzymatic browning flavor loss are major concerns which makes pre-processing crucial step for further processing. In this context, dry microwave blanching (MWB) was explored as an alternative to hot-water (HW) reduce nutrition losses particular...

The whole plant of P. niruri was dried under shade and then macerated. 500 g of P. niruri was soaked in 3 litres of absolute a lcohol (Depar tment o f pharmacology , Manipa l ) . Af te r 24 hours , ex t rac t ion was star ted by ref lux condensat ion. The extract was concen t ra ted by d i s t i l l a t ion and then evaporated to dryness on a waterbath. 500 g of dr ied P. n i rur i y ie lded 85...

The radioprotective efficacy of the ethanolic extract of Amalakyadi churna (an Ayurvedic formulation) was studied against the induction of micronuclei in the bone marrow cells of whole body irradiated (4Gy γ-rays) Swiss albino mice. Amalakyadi churna (AC) is a powdered mixture of equiproportions of fruits of Phyllanthus emblica L (Euphorbiaceae), Piper longum L (Piperaceae), Terminalia chebula ...

Doxorubicin as a chemotherapy agent is most widely used in cancer treatment. Long-term use at predetermined dose has side effect, namely cardiotoxicity. Doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity considered to be caused by reactive oxygen species (ROS), which also characterized increasing CK-MB enzyme levels the blood. To reduce impact of doxorubin-induced toxicity, study was conducted on natural antio...