Rhubarb (Dahuang in Chinese), a well-known chinese herbal medicine, has long been used in the world and is officially listed in Chinese Pharmacopoeia which containing three species, Rheum palmatum L., Rheum officinale Bail and Rheum tanguticum Maxim. ex Balf. [1]. It is also formally listed in European and Japanese Pharmacopoeia [2,3]. This important herbal medicine has been discerned for centu...

Given an infinite graph of profinite groups ( $${\cal G}$$ , Γ) we construct a $$\overline {\cal G} ,\overline \Gamma $$ ) such that Γ is densely embedded in the fundamental group $${\Pi _1}\left( {\overline } \right)$$ completion $${\pi {{\cal G},\Gamma and standard tree $$S\left( embeds . This answers Ribes’ question [5, Question 6.7.1]. Generalizing main results [8] [2] answer two other ques...

Rheum species are medicinally important herbs, posses several type of biological activities due to the presence of anthraquinone derivatives. Several HPLC methods have been used for sepeatation of anthraquinone of Rheum Species. In most cases anthraquinones were separated using C18 column as a stationary phase, acetonitrile, water and methanol with or without acid as mobile phase at 1.0 ml/min ...

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Cyperus rotundus, Caesalpinia bonducella, Tinospora cordifolia, Gardenia gummifera, Ailanthus excelsa, Acacia arabica, Embelia ribes and Ventilago maderspatana from Melghat forest were screened for their antibacterial potential against Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Proteus vulgaris, Salmonella typhi, Shigella flexneri, Salmonella paratyphi, Salmonella typhimuri...

Forty days of orally feeding the aqueous E. ribes extract (100 and 200 mg/kg) to streptozotocin (40 mg/kg, iv, single dose) induced diabetic rats produced significant decrease in heart rate, systolic blood pressure, blood glucose, blood glycosylated hemoglobin, serum lactate dehydrogenase, creatine kinase and increase in blood glutathione levels as compared to pathogenic diabetic rats. Further,...

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The purpose of this study was to observe the antibacterial activity of aqueous methanolic extracts of 10 plants against 2-gram negative bacteria (Pasteurella multocida, Escherichia coli) and 3-gram positive bacteria (Bacillus cereus, Staphylococcus aureus, Corynebacterium bovis) by using disc diffusion method. The minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) was determined by agar well diffusion meth...