Ayurveda, the system of traditional medicine from India, holds that 'Rasa', a concept roughly corresponding to taste, is a basis for identifying pharmacological properties of plants and other materia medica used in Dravyaguna-its system of phytomedicine. This idea has recently found support in studies of ibuprofen, the pharmacological properties of which are similar to those of oleocanthal, bec...

Phytochemical studies have experienced a great deal of change during the last century, not only regarding the number of compounds described, but also in the concept of phytochemistry itself. This change has mainly been related to two key points: the methodologies used in phytochemical studies and the questions regarding 'why secondary metabolites appeared in plants and in other living organisms...

The genus Trigonella is an annual plant distributed in the Mediterranean region and it comprises several species. The present report deals with the dietary, medicinal, biochemical biological and various pharmacological properties.

Ben Chung-Lap Chan, Clara Bik-San Lau, Claude Jolivalt, Sau-Lai Lui, Carine GanemElbaz, Jean-Marc Paris, Marc Litaudon, Kwok-Pui Fung, Ping-Chung Leung and Margaret Ip * Institute of Chinese Medicine; Department of Microbiology; School of Biomedical Sciences; State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry & Plant Resources in West China, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hon...

1Center for Biomedicinal Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Niš, Bulevar Dr Zorana Djindjica 81, 18000 Niš, Serbia 2Institute of Organic Chemistry with Centre of Phytochemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev Str., Build. 9, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria 3Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University of Sofia, 2 Dunav Str., 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria 4Institute of Biochemistry, Faculty of ...

Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatology, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong. Institute of Chinese Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Department of Chemical Pa...

The phytochemistry of the genus Piper (Piperaceae) has been widely studied due to the biological properties of amides from these plants. In this work, we have synthesized and evaluated the toxic effect of 11 amides against the fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda larvae. The naturally occurring piperine was also evaluated. The most active amide was N-[3-(3',4'-methylenedioxyphenyl)-2-(E)-propeno...

Loranthus micranthus Linn. is a medicinal plant from the Loranthaceae family commonly known as an eastern Nigeria species of the African mistletoe and is widely used in folkloric medicine to cure various ailments and diseases. It is semiparasitic plant because of growing on various host trees and shrubs and absorbing mineral nutrition and water from respective host. Hence, the phytochemicals an...