hellenia speciosa (J. Koenig) s.r. dutta, commonly known as spiral ginger, is a potent medicinal plant in the family Costaceae. it has wide range of applications traditional and modern medicine with many active ingredients. diosgenin steroidal sapogenin obtained from h. speciosa. commercially used an important raw material for synthesis drugs. Foliar sprays salicylic acid (sa) were to study ind...

CONTEXT Garcinia cowa is a medicinal plant widely grown in Southeast Asia and tropical countries. Various parts of this plant have been used in traditional folk medicine. The bark, latex, and root have been used as an antipyretic agent, while fruit and leaves have been used as an expectorant, for indigestion and improvement of blood circulation. AIMS This study aims to determine the concentra...

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background & aim: kazeroon, with an area of about 4060 km², is situated at 110 km in the west of shiraz, fars province, iran. this area is important for plant biodiversity, due to the presence of some important habitats such as international lake of parishan in the southeast, woodlands of quercus persica in the east and branches of shahpoor river in the west of the region. therefore, for th...

background & aim: the present study was to identify the medicinal plant species and introduced as one of the key priority areas for conservation and determination of endangered species were done. experimental: the method of plant collection in this region was classical method of regional plant taxonomic studies. collected plants were recognized and determined families, genera and species o...

background aloe vera l. is an important pharmaceutical plant from which several medicinal and cosmetic compounds are extracted. aloe is naturally propagated through offset, which is a slow and expensive labor cost method with low economical income. objectives in this study, the effect of different media on shoot proliferation of the shoot tip of aloe vera l. was investigated. materials and meth...

Berberis aristata known as "Daruharidra" in Ayurveda is a versatile medicinal plant used singly or in combination with other medicinal plants for treating a variety of ailments like jaundice, enlargement of spleen, leprosy, rheumatism, fever, morning/evening sickness, snakebite, and so forth. A major bioactive marker of this genus is an alkaloid berberine, which is known for its activity agains...

Ethnobotanical studies on traditional medicinal plants were conducted in Ba To district and documented different types of traditional medicinal plants used by the indigenous peoples. The study was focused on identifying medicinal plants, distribution, disease treated, part of the plant used, and methods of preparation... A total 45 species of medicinal plants (belonging to 26 families) were col...

background & aim: a herbarium is a collection of preserved plant specimens. herbarium specimens form an important recorded of what plants grew where over time. kerman province with area about 171993 km2 has a lat of difference vegetation because of climatic and topography variations. it has different elevation (above sea level) from 300 m in shahdad to 4420 m in hezar mountains. material &...