Triphala is a traditional herbal formulation consisting of dried fruits originating from three medicinal plants, namely Terminalia chebula, Terminalia bellirica and Phyllanthus embelica. It is used in folk medicine for the treatment of headaches, dyspepsia and leucorrhoea. There are some reports regarding Triphala"s pharmacological effects including its anti-cancer, radioprotective, hypocholest...

Terminalia bellirica Roxb belongs to the family Combretaceae, is distributed throughout the deciduous forests of India. The petroleum ether, chloroform, ethanol and aqueous extracts of the bark of Terminalia bellirica were screened for free radical scavenging activity against DPPH, ABTS, superoxide, nitric oxide, hydroxyl and hydrogen peroxide radicals. The scavenging activity was found to be d...

the dried fruit of terminalia chebula is widely used for its laxative properties. the objective of the present study was to examine the flowability and compressibility of terminalia chebula fruit powder, subsequently developing its tablet formulations by utilizing wet granulation and direct compression technology. initial studies on flowability and compressibility revealed that the fruit powder...

MinKyun Na, KiHwan Bae*, Sam Sik Kang, Byung Sun Min, Jae Kuk Yoo, Yuko Kamiryo, Yu-ichiro Senoo, Seiichi Yokoo and Nobuhiko Miwa College of Pharmacy, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea Jakwang Research Institute, Hansaeng Cosmetics Co., Ltd., Nonsan, Korea Natural Products Research Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea Laboratory of Immunomodulator, Korea Research Instit...

The present studies have been planned to evaluate ovicidal efficacy of Ziziphus mauritiana and Terminalia arjuna leaves. For this purpose, egg hatch test (EHT) was conducted on nematode ova to investigate the in vitro ovicidal effects of crude aqueous extract (CAE) and crude aqueous methanolic extracts (CAME) of the leaves of the plants. Lethal concentration 50 (LC50) values of CAE and CAME of ...

Triphala is a traditional herbal formulation consisting of dried fruits originating from three medicinal plants, namely Terminalia chebula, Terminalia bellirica and Phyllanthus embelica. It is used in folk medicine for the treatment of headaches, dyspepsia and leucorrhoea. There are some reports regarding Triphala"s pharmacological effects including its anti-cancer, radioprotective, hypocholest...

To investigate the immunomodulatory activity of flavonoid fractions of Terminalia catappa in Swiss albino mice. The flavonoid fraction of T.catappa was administrated intraperitonealy at a dose of ED50 to healthy albino mice. Assessment of immunomodulatory activity was carried out by assessment of neutrophil adhesion and phagocytic index. Intraperitonealy administered Tcff showed a significant i...