lycium species is a popular medicinal plant in the traditional chinese medicine and lycium ruthenicum is a native medicinal plant of iran. lycium genus has several biologically important properties too. investigation of chemical composition of ethyl acetate extract of this plant is the goal of this study. two coumarins (scopoletin and sculetin) and methyl-2-hydroxy-4-undecanoxy-trans-cinamate w...

Inula cappa is well known for its medicinal properties like anti-inflammatory, digestive, depurative, carminative, analgesics, antipyretics, treatment of peptic ulcer etc. The present study focuses on the ability of I. cappa to alleviate liver damage caused by over carbon tetrachloride. The aqueous extract of whole plant of I. cappa (400 mg/kg, p.o) significantly showed hepatoprotective activit...

Antimicrobial activity of the folklore medicinal plant species, Acalypha fruticosa in the part of stem bark by using three alcoholic solvents viz; petroleum ether, ethyl acetate and methanol were tested against ten human pathogenic bacteria viz., Pseudomonas aeruginosa, P. stutzeri, Escherichia coli, Micrococcus sp., Lactobacillus sp., Servatia sp., Moraxetta sp., Bacillus subtilis, B. Research...

In traditional practice medicinal plants are used in many countries to control diabetes mellitus. Plant drugs are frequently considered to be less toxic and more free from side effects than synthetic ones. Phaseolus vulgaris L. is a common vegetable used since ancient times. It has been shown to posses many medicinal properties. In the present study, intraperitoneal administration of alcoholic ...

The Dolichos biflorus is a well known medicinal plant in folklore for its medicinal properties. In herbal medicine the seeds of it are mainly used as tonic, astringent, diuretic, and are also recommended in asthma, bronchitis, urinary discharges, hiccoughs, ozoena, heart trouble and other diseases of brain. The main purpose of this study is to explore and to provide experimental data on the tra...

Hippophae rhamnoides (Seabuckthorn) (Family: Elaegnaceae), a medicinal plant from Himalayas, traditionally used for health promotion. The study has been designed to investigate the effect of Sea buckthorn leaf alcoholic extract and other well-known medicinal plants, in Dengue infected U-937 cells (Human Monocytic cell line), as monocytes are the host cells for Dengue virus. Significantly high a...

This study was conducted to evaluate the analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects of hydroalcoholic extract of Pot marigold aerial part as an indigenous medicinal Iranian plant. Pot marigold (family Asteraceae) is an important plant of genus Calendula (marigolds), having several medicinal applications all over the world. In order to evaluate its analgesic activities hot water tail immersion and ...

Traditional medicine is the synthesis of therapeutic experience of generations of practicing physicians of indigenous systems of medicine. Throughout the history of mankind, many infectious diseases have been treated with herbals. The traditional medicine is increasingly solicited through the tradipractitioners and herbalists in the treatment of infectious diseases. Among the remedies used, pla...

In traditional practice medicinal plants are used in many countries to control diabetes mellitus. Plant drugs are frequently considered to be less toxic and more free from side effects than synthetic ones. Phaseolus vulgaris L. is a common vegetable used since ancient times. It has been shown to posses many medicinal properties. In the present study, intraperitoneal administration of alcoholic ...