Aim: The medicinal plant Merremia gangetica Linn., family - Convolvulaceae, traditionally being used by the local healers due to its multiple therapeutic indications. Present review aims collect currently available data on ethno-medicinal information and research updates M. gangetica. Material Methods: Available books related traditional folklore uses of were searched from plants published arti...

The genus Caesalpinia (Caesalpiniaceae) has more than 500 species, many of which have not yet been investigated for potential pharmacological activity. Several classes of chemical compounds, such as flavonoids, diterpenes, and steroids, have been isolated from various species of the genus Caesalpinia. It has been reported in the literature that these species exhibit a wide range of pharmacologi...

Inter-ethnic botanical borrowing is usually deemed to be based on pragmatic efficiency. However, in the regional system we discovered between several indigenous groups from the Peruvian rainforest, the transfer of ethnomedicinal knowledge relies much more on relational factors than on any kind of strictly therapeutic efficacy. This is clearly substantiated by a detailed comparison between objec...

Background & Aim: Medicinal plants are one of the most valuable resources in Iran, having a scientific knowledge and proper use; they can play an important role in community health. Some of the significant aims of ethnobotany project are to indicate the most common medicinal species, finding out the exact application of the plant species from various population of the area, and...

Elephantopus scaber is an ethnomedicinal plant used by the Zhuang people in Southwest China to treat headaches, colds, diarrhea, hepatitis, and bronchitis. A new δ -truxinate derivative, ethyl, methyl 3,4,3',4'-tetrahydroxy- δ -truxinate (1), was isolated from the ethyl acetate extract of the entire plant, along with 4 known compounds. The antioxidant activity of these 5 compounds was determine...

An ethnomedicinal survey was carried out in Pedabayalu Mandalam, Alluri Sitaramaraju District, Andhra Pradesh, India. The information collected on the basis of personal interviews with traditional healers, tribal doctors and old women society. investigation revealed that 69 plant species belonging to 40 families 60 genera were commonly used treatment 37 ailments.

The ethnomedicinal uses of the aqueous leaf extract of Andrographis paniculata Nees (AP) include treatment of pain and inflammation, malaria, asthma and common cold. We designed this study to characterize some effects of AP and those of its andrographolide constituent. Guinea pig tracheal rings suspended in organ baths containing PSS were precontracted with histamine or carbachol and then expos...