Medicinal plants constitute an important component of flora and are widely distributed in India. The pharmacological evaluation of substances from plants is an established method for the identification of lead compounds which can leads to the development of novel and safe medicinal agents. Based on the ethnopharmacological literature, several species of medicinal plants used in traditional medi...

Tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis is an infectious deadly disease and the treatment of which is one of the most severe challenges at the global level. Currently more than 20 chemical medications are described for the treatment of TB. Regardless of availability of several drugs to treat TB, the causative agent, M. tuberculosis is nowadays getting resistant toward the conven...

An important element of drug development using plants is the accumulation and analysis of pertinent research data and purported ethnomedical (folkloric) uses for plants. Due to the quantity of information frequently available in the literature and its appearance over many years from worldwide sources, this information is best stored and analyzed by computers, There are 10 automated data bases t...