BACKGROUND Plant species have long been used as principal ingredients of traditional medicine in far-west Nepal. The medicinal plants with ethnomedicinal values are currently being screened for their therapeutic potential but their data and information are inadequately compared and analyzed with the Ayurveda and the phytochemical findings. METHODS The present study evaluated ethnomedicinal pl...

Appearance does not easily identify the dried plant fragments used to prepare teas to species. Here we test recovery of standard DNA barcodes for land plants from a large array of commercial tea products and analyze their performance in identifying tea constituents using existing databases. Most (90%) of 146 tea products yielded rbcL or matK barcodes using a standard protocol. Matching DNA iden...

Plants have been used in the treatment of various diseases from the time of immemorial the use of plant as a source of medicine lies deep in the history of mankind. Thousands of plant species growing throughout the world have medicinal uses containing active constituents that have direct action in the body. They are used both in herbal and conventional medicine. Hence herbal drugs are valuable ...

Herbal therapy is a holistic therapy, integrating emotional, mental and spiritual levels. Life style, emotional, mental and spiritual considerations are part of any naturopathic approach. The use of herbs does not generally involve "drug" actions or adverse effects. Although medicinal plants are widely used and assumed to be safe, however, they can potentially be toxic. Where poisoning from med...

Abortifacients of vegetable origin are commonly used in rural areas for termination of pregnancy and inducing uterine contractions during postpartum period. Preliminary studies on five plants which are the ingredients of a commonly used herbal decoction, Dashmool, have alreadybeen reported from this laboratory (3 and 1). The present work embodies detailed observations on the pharmacological act...

Several medicinal plants are having hypoglycemic effects.[1], The World Health Organization has recommended that the assessment of traditional plant treatments for diabetes mellitus needs further investigation.[2], Several herbal medicines were described for the care of diabetes mellitus in ancient literature of Ayurveda in India. Many of the plants used as diet were reported to have antidiabet...

Ethnobotanical surveys were conducted in four different indigenous groups in Khammam District of Andhra Pradesh. The herbal practitioners in the study area were interviewed and information on medicinal plants was collected from the traditional healers called Vaidyars. This survey covers 96 medicinal plants belonging to 44 families that are used for the treatment of various diseases in a traditi...

Background:The use of herbal or medicinal plants in various forms has been popular for thousands of years. It is estimated that about 70–80% of the world’s population relies on alternative medicine, mainly of herbal origin. However, due to the nature and sources of these plants, they are sometimes contaminated with toxic heavy metals, which pose serious health risks to consumers. Herbal formula...

The Indian subcontinent is enriched by a variety of flora-both aromatic and medicinal plants. Herbal drugs constitute a major part in all the traditional systems of medicine. There are approximately 1250 Indian medicinal plants, which are used in formulating therapeutic preparation according to Ayurveda and other traditional system of medicine. This work has been an approach to formulate a mode...

Interest in traditional medicine and in particular herbal medicine has increased in both developed and developing countries over the past two decades. Some reported adverse events following the use of certain herbal medicines have been associated with a variety of possible explanations, including the inadvertent use of the wrong plant species, adulteration with undeclared other medicines. The s...