BACKGROUND Herbal drugs used to treat illness according to Ayurveda are often misidentified or adulterated with similar plant materials. OBJECTIVE To aid taxonomical identification, we used DNA barcoding to evaluate authentic and substitute samples of herb and phylogenetic relationship of four medicinal plants of family Asparagaceace and Asclepiadaceae. MATERIALS AND METHODS DNA extracted f...

Background: Drinking fluoride-contaminated water is a severe health hazard problem. Fluorosis -both skeletal and dental- an important clinical public problem in about 24 countries including India. The best method to overcome the of excess fluoride drinking defluoridation. Adsorption methods are simple, economical, globally pursued techniques. Thirst-quenching herbal products locally called ‘Dah...

The present study highlights the importance of some medicinal plants in health care system Malayali tribal community Yercaud Hills, Salem district, Tamil Nadu, India. Ethnomedicinal information was collected from malayali tribes through personal interviews and group discussions with 8 randomly selected informants. Use value (UV), fidelity level (FL) Informant Consensus factor (ICF) were determi...

The effects of different nodal positions and 6-benzylaminopurine (BAP) concentrations on shoot development from nodal explants of Hemidesmus indicus (L.) Br. (Iramusu) were investigated. The highest number of shoots per explant (2.57±0.97) was observed in 4 nodal position, while the longest shoot length (3.23± 0.52 cm) was achieved in 5 nodal position at 2 mg/L BAP with 0.1 mg/L Naphthalene Ace...