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In West Africa and Nigeria in particular, many virgin plants are still waiting to be evaluated for their medicinal importance. Claims of plants with folk medicinal applications need to be evaluated and verified. Gomphrena celosioides (family - Amaranthaceae) is a weed grown in lawns and the biological activity of the extract had earlier been established. In the present study, the plant was coll...

An experiment to study the effect of inter and intra row spacing on the yielding performance of periwinkle species was conducted at Nagarjun Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Research Scheme, P. K. V., Akola (M. S.) during 1980 - 81 to 82 - 83. Three species viz., Catharanthus roseus, Catharanthus alba and Catharanthus oscillatus did not differ significantly in respect of dried foliage and root yie...

What is herbal therapy? Herbs are plants that contain ingredients with active therapeutic properties. These active ingredients may be present in the whole plant or only in a specific part. Other parts of the same plant, or other plants in the same genus may have no activity or may in fact be toxic. An herb may be used in various forms, including teas, granular extracts (Chinese medicine), fresh...

There are plenty of antioxidant substances present in plants parts such as fruits, vegetables, medicinal herbs and the free radical scavenging molecules present in them are in the form of Phenolic compounds (phenolic acids, flavonoids, quinones, coumarins, lignans, tannins), Nitrogen compounds (alkaloids, amines), Vitamins, Terpenoids (carotenoids) and some other endogenous metabolites. Therape...

Background and aims: In Iran herbal water and dried herb are as traditional medicinal and are consumed widely. Therefore, microbial evaluation of these products in term of public health is important. The aim of the present study was to study the contamination of some dried medical plants and distillates in the groceries of Shahrekord city. Methods: In thi...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the toxicological effects of medicinal herb extract of Momordica charantica, Emblica officinalis, Tribulus terrestris and Trigonella foenum graecium in Albino mice. The herbal extract was prepared by maceration of the fruits of these plant, procured locally. The extracts were dried and store separately. These were reconstituted separately with car...

background and aims: medicinal plants are a valuable resource for flavonoids extraction. prosopis fracta is one of the plants with medicinal properties. prosopis fracta was found in abundance in southern regions in iran. coersetin is medicinal substance found in the fruit of this plant. quercetin is used in treatment of cancer and viral infections. this study was conducted to determine the quer...