The tree diversity and carbon stock of all woody plants were investigated in two-hectare square plots (100 m x 100 m) established Suryanpet (SP) Velleripet (VP) which is tropical dry evergreen forest (TDEF) sites on the Coromandel Coast peninsular India. All trees ? 10 cm girth at breast height measured 1.3 from rooting point enumerated. A total 35 species (? gbh) belonging to 34 genera 23 fami...

Strychnos spinosa Lam. of the Loganiaceae family is associated with versatility, poverty eradication, and rural economic development. However, morphological diversity S. not well documented. This limits efforts toward its improvement commercial exploitation. study aimed to characterize variability, vegetative reproductive traits, heritability morphotypes at Bonamanzi Game Reserve. The majority ...

Safety evaluation of polyherbal Unani formulation -Deedan in Wistar ratsKhalid Ghazanfar, Showkat A. Dar, Tazeen Nazir, Irfat Ara, Akbar Masood, Seema

Sib,?The following account of fatal poisoning' of Nux Vomica habituee may prove interesting to your readers :? Madiga Chennoogadoo, a sweeper by occupation, aged about 25, well built, was brought to the Badval Civil Dispensary, at 11 A.M. on the 12th of March last, with the following history :?Occasionally he had been in the habit of eating two seeds of Strychnos Nux Vomica at a time to get him...

The seeds of Strychnos nuxvomica Linn. (Loganiaceae) were processed as prescribed in the Ayurvedic classics. The seeds were soaked in Kanji (3 days; Sample A); boiled in cow milk (3 h; Sample B); soaked in cow urine (7 days), boiled in cow milk (3 h) and roasted in cow ghee (till swollen; Sample C) and a sample roasted in cow ghee (till swollen; Sample D). The processed nux vomica were compared...

Purpose: To investigate the effect of vomit seed homeopathic drugs (14CH and 30CH) on paracetamolinduced toxicity in rats.
 Methods: Thirty-two male Wistar rats were divided into 4 groups 8 animals each (n = 8) treated for 12 days. During treatment period, group (G) one (G1) which constitutes control received filtered water, whereas two (G2), three (G3), four (G4) gavaged with a toxic dose...