The World Health Organization encourages the use of medicinal plants especially in countries where conventional treatment of major diseases seems to be insufficient. India has good biodiversity and Indian medicinal plants are used in successful management of various diseases. Sesbania grandiflora (SG), family – Leguminosae, is a well known Indian medicinal plant used in traditional system for v...

BACKGROUND Vector control is facing a threat due to the emergence of resistance to synthetic insecticides. Insecticides of botanical origin may serve as suitable alternative biocontrol techniques in the future. Although several plants have been reported for mosquitocidal activity, only a few botanicals have moved from the laboratory to field use, because they are poorly characterized, in most c...

The present paper attempts to evaluate the physicochemical and preliminary phytochemical characteristics of Anacardium occidentale (Linn.), belonging to family Anacardiaceae. Anacardium occidentale is a tree native to Brazil and also found in tropical countries like Malaysia and India. The plant is reported to have anti-fungal, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities. However there are no ...

Introduction: Polyalthia longifolia Thwaites (PL) is an ornamentally important flowering tree with immense potential. Identification of phytochemical constituents from plant extracts is need of hour in developing countries like India. These elucidated constituents may play a pivotal role in providing remedies to plethora of diseases whether major or minor. Proper application of analytical techn...

Background: Mangrove ecosystems have been known to possess diverse secondary metabolites and a good number of bioactive compounds of pharmaceutical importance have been reported from the mangrove plants. They are biochemically unique, producing wide array of natural products with unique bioactivity. They possess active metabolites with some novel chemical structures which belong to diverse chem...

In the present study, preliminary phytochemical screening using following Aegle marmelos (Bael), Annona squamosa (Sitaphal), Ficus racemosa (Gular), Hibiscus rosa sinenses (Jaswand) and Psidium guajava (Guava) five plant leaves extracts was done for the qualitative analysis of various phytochemical studies such as alkaloids, coumarins, saponins, flavonoids and steroids. . Aegle marmelos (leaves...

Six different indigenous plants were screened for antifeedant and insecticidal activity against fourth instar larvae of Epilachna beetle, Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata, which is a severe pest on brinjal. Among the plants screened, Achyranthes aspera showed higher activity against the selected pest. Ethyl acetate extracts of A. aspera showed higher antifeedant index and insecticidal activit...

Capsicum annum L. (Family: Solanaceae) and Hemidesmus indicus (Linn.) R.Br. (Family: Asclepiadaceae) are commonly used in Tamilnadufor treating various ailments in the native system of medicine. The hydroalcoholic extracts of both plants at dose level of 100 mg/kg body weight showed demonstrable anti-inflammatory activity in the carrageenan-induced hind paw model in rats. Nevertheless, the over...