The fruits of Withania coagulans Dunal (family: Solanaceae) are sweet, sedative, emetic, alterative and diuretic; used to treat asthma, biliousness, strangury, wounds, dyspepsia, flatulent colic, liver complaints and intestinal infections. Phytochemical investigation of the fruits yielded a withanolide tetraglucoside identified as (20S, 22R)-5alpha, 20alpha-diacetoxy-6beta-hydroxy- 1-oxowitha-2...

This study illustrates a profile of some essential and non-essential elements (Na, K, Mg, Ca, Cu, Zn, Mn, Fe, Pb, Cr, Cd, Co, Al, Sn) in the aerial parts six medicinal plants, i.e. Coriandrum sativum L., Mentha spicata Papaver somniferum Calotropis gigantean (L.) Dryand., Withania coagulans (Stock) Dunal, Fagonia arabica L. widely consumed district Peshawar, capital city Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pak...

Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal is an important ayurvedic medicinal plant known mainly for its rejuvenating properties. In vitro micropropagation or multiplication of Withania somnifera through apical shoot proliferation by using different concentrations of growth regulators in short period. Shoots were induced from the apical meristem of Withania somnifera on Murashige and Skoog (MS) basal media...

Withania somnifera Dunal (Ashwangdha), a popular medicinal herb of Ayurveda is used for health, vitality, longevity and rejuvenation properties. It is a common ingredient of polyherbal or herbomineral formulations and used for preventive or therapeutic polypharmaceutical use. Present article emphasized on the studies, which provides the pharmacological basis of its use in cardiovascular disease...

objective: oxygen free radicals may be implicated in the pathogenesis of ischemia reperfusion damage. the beneficial effects of antioxidant nutrients, as well as complex plant extracts, on cerebral ischemia-reperfusion injuries are well known. this study was conducted to determine the effects of the hydro-alcoholic root extract of withania coagulans on ca1 hippocampus oxidative damages followin...