The inhibition of in-vitro calcium-oxalate crystal formation by Phyllanthus niruri L. extract was investigated by different methods i.e. nucleation assay and synthetic urine assay. In nucleation assay, the aim was to evaluate the effectiveness of different concentrations of the extract on calcium oxalate crystallization in vitro while in synthetic urine method the percentage inhibition and grow...

Five groups of six rabbits each were infected with 10 6 cell/ml inoculums of “enteropathogenic” Escherichia coli and treated with alkaloid extract of Phyllanthus niruri administered as strawberry at 100mg/day divided in four doses. Sample of serum and urine were collected before infection, 26hr after infection, 3 rd day of therapy (72hr) and 48hr after 7 th day of therapy. Creatinine, urea nitr...

Methods Thirty-three patients with clinical features of diabetic sensory polyneuropathy confirmed both clinically and with a neuropathy analyzer machine were included. All patients received Ayurvedic treatment as outpatients or inpatients (depending on the severity) for one month. Treatment included oral administration of Phyllanthus niruri powder 3g twice a day and Abutilon indicum root decoct...

Aeromonas hydrophila was obtained from various sources and identified on the basis of growth on selective media, phenotypic and biochemical characters. The isolates (Ah1-Ah9) were subjected to antibiotic susceptibility and resistance pattern tests. The isolates showing maximum resistance to most of the commercial antibiotic discs used were selected. The selected isolate (Ah7) was further subjec...

Medicinally important five Phyllanthus species viz. P. acidus (L.) Skeels, emblica L. (small fruit form), (large niruri L., reticulatus Poir. and urinaria were cytogenetically studied through orcein-staining for authentic characterization. This genus showed variation in somatic chromosome numbers such as 2n=2x=26 (x=13) acidus, reticulatus, 2n=6x=48 (x=8) 2n=10x=100 (x=10) (both small large for...

BACKGROUND Ethnomedicines are used by hunters for themselves and their hunting dogs in Trinidad. Plants are used for snakebites, scorpion stings, for injuries and mange of dogs and to facilitate hunting success. RESULTS Plants used include Piper hispidum, Pithecelobium unguis-cati, Bauhinia excisa, Bauhinia cumanensis, Cecropia peltata, Aframomum melegueta, Aristolochia rugosa, Aristolochia t...

General phytochemical screening of Phyllanthus amarus (Euphorbiaceae) revealed the presence of Saponin, tannins, glycoside and alkaloids etc. The aim of this study is to identify and characterize the bioactive principle from the plant. It has wide folk medicinal uses. The isolation and characterization of Phytoconstituents was done from the methanolic extract by the gradient fractionation metho...