The present study was aimed at documenting the detailed ethnomedicinal knowledge of an unexplored area of Pakistan. Semistructured interviews were taken with 55 informants randomly chosen regarding detailed ethnomedicinal and sociocultural information. The study exposed 67 medicinal plant species used to prepare 110 recipes and the major modes of herbal formulation were decoction and powdering ...

Withania somnifera (W. somnifera), a small, woody shrub in the Solanaceae family, has been studied using phytochemical test, antibacterial activity and partial characterizations. Air-dried powdered leaves of plant were extracted with maceration over an electrical shaker solvent chloroform methanol. After crude extracts concentrated, diffusion susceptibility test was carried out on 25, 50, 75, 1...

Withaferin A (WA) is a bioactive compound derived from a medicinal plant Withania somnifera and has potential therapeutic effects against various types of cancers. The purpose of this study is to investigate an apoptotic effect of WA and identify its molecular target in HSC-3 and HSC-4 human oral cancer cell lines using Trypan blue exclusion assay, DAPI staining and western blotting. WA inhibit...

Ayurvedha and Herbal medicine are two important forms of alternative medicine that are widely available. Medicinal plants have disease curing properties and this is due to the compounds presents in the extracts. This work is mainly concerned with the identification of the therapeutic properties of Indian medicinal plant extracts. So we identified the compounds of different medicinal plants like...

The herbal vendors are the mobile tribal medicinement seen on the busy streets of many Indian cities selling crude medicinal plants and their products. They prescribe herbal treatment for several diseases, a skill they inherited from their forefathers through several generations of experience. They claim to have specific herbal remedies for the complete cure of some urino - genital disorders su...

Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera Dunal., Solanaceae) is one of the most reputed medicinal plants of Ayurveda, the traditional medical system. Several of its traditionally proclaimed medicinal properties have been corroborated by recent molecular pharmacological investigations and have been shown to be associated with its specific secondary metabolites known as withanolides, the novel group of er...