background and objective: genus salacia l. (celastraceae) is a woody climbing medicinal plant consisting of about 200 species with many endangered species located throughout the world’s tropical areas. various parts of the plant as food, functional food additive and tea have been extensively used to treat a variety of ailments like diabetes and obesity as well as inflammatory and skin diseases....

Eclipta alba can be found growing wild in fallow lands of Bangladesh where it is considered as a weed by farmers. Traditional medicinal systems of the Indian subcontinent countries as well as tribal practitioners consider the plant to have diverse medicinal values and use it commonly for treatment of gastrointestinal disorders, respiratory tract disorders (including asthma), fever, hair loss an...

In the past, Cratoxylum genus has often been utilized as traditional medicines, culinary ingredients, health supplements, well manufacturing materials. This flowering plant belongs to family Hypericaceae and is classified into six species: arborescens, cochinchinense, formosum, glaucum, maingayi, sumatranum. The native Asia a medicinal plant. It currently being translated conventional therapeut...

Email: [email protected] Mobile: 9880468028 ABSTRACT Artocarpus altilis is an important medicinal plant. It is commonly called as bread fruit. The present review article gives an account of updated information on its cultivation, phytochemistry, pharmacological actions and its traditional uses. The review reveals that the various activities like antioxidant activity, anti-inflammatory, anti ...

The genus, Salacia belongs to the family, Celastraceae and is distributed across the world. Roots and stems of Salacia are used mainly as antidiabetic agents in traditional system of medicine such as Ayurveda and Unani. The roots are either chewed directly or taken in dried powdered form or as decoction. Apart from antidiabetic activity, several species of the genus Salacia are known to possess...

Plants of medicinal importance though are quite well known among the Ayurvedic practitioners since years, yet many of them have not been standardized, validated and documented completely. Among such medicinally valuable plants, Salacia holds a place as an effective antidiabetic herb and many species of this plant are in use as anti-diabetics. The present study reports the phytochemical analysis...

Underutilized legumes are common crops in developing countries with superior dietary potentials that could be useful sources of protein as well some phytoconstituents. They more tolerant abiotic environmental conditions like drought than the major legumes. This makes them adapted to harsh soil and climatic conditions, which helps minimize pressure brought on by climate change. However, despite ...

Salacia oblonga Wall containing vital phytoconstituents viz. mangiferin, salacinol, kotanolol etc has been in used since long in the treatment of diabetes, inflammation and burn wounds. The antimicrobial activity of S. oblonga aerial and root parts has been tested against drug resistant pathogens staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Klebsiella pneumoniae. Ethyl acetate extracts of ...

The aim of this review is to analyze published data on the pharmacological, Phytochemical and Pharmacognostic profile of plant Vernonia anthelmintica Willd genus. This will help to identify the state of knowledge in regard to this plant species and to propose future research priorities. Material and Method-The major scientific databases including Science direct, cab direct, CeRA, Proquest and G...

In this article, a review on bioactive flavonoids that are abundant in medicinal and functional food (dietary) plants has been made, with special reference to antimalarial flavonoid molecules. Flavonoids have been found to exist in plants/plant medicines with a wide structural diversity consisting of numerous polyphenolic compounds and having well defined molecular target specificity. These phy...