The effect of daily oral administration of aqueous extract (600 mg/kg b.wt.) and methanol extract (200 mg/kg b.wt.) of Murraya koenigii Spreng leaves for a period of eight weeks was studied on blood glucose and plasma insulin level in alloxan-induced diabetic rats. Blood glucose levels of diabetic rats treated with aqueous and methanol extracts of Murraya koenigii Spreng showed significant redu...

Murraya koenigii is a valuable medicinal plant which has been used in traditional system of medicine since long time. The extraction of active ingredients such as alkaloids, flavonoids, triterpenes, steroids etc. from the plant facilitates pharmacological studies. The present investigation is to evaluate the proper taxomic status and preliminary phyto-chemical characters as well as physicochemi...

1 Pharmacology Division, Nandha College of Pharmacy, Koorapalayam Pirivu, Pitchandampalayam, Erode-District., Tamilnadu–638052, India; 2 Pharmacology Division, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Post Box–38, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar, Haryana -125001, India; 3 Department of Food and Nutrition, Vellalar College for Women, Erode-District, Tamilnadu–38009, In...

The study on petroleum ether extract of the roots of Murraya koenigii (curry leaf) which involves extraction, separations by using various chromatographic methods and structural determination by spectroscopic techniques have afforded two compounds; 3-methylcarbazole and murrayafoline A. The structure of the compounds were also confirmed by comparison with the previous works. Abstrak. Kajian ter...

Murraya koenigii (Curry leaf tree), from the Rutaceae family, is a medicinally important herb of Indian origin and now were widely distributed throughout southern Asia. The bark of Malayan Murraya koenigii was selected for phytochemical investigation. The isolation of chemical constituents from its hexane and dichloromethane extract was carried out by using different chromatographic techniques....

Four new alkenes (1-4), and six known alkenes (5-12) were isolated from Murraya koenigii (L.) Spreng. Their structures were elucidated on the basis of spectroscopic analyses and references. Compounds (1-12) were evaluated for antioxidative activities. Among them, compounds 1, 2, 4, and 7 exhibited significant antioxidative activities using 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) assay with IC50=21...

Plants have been used in traditional medicine for several thousand years. India is perhaps the largest producer of medicinal herbs and is rightly called the “Botanical garden of the World”. Murraya koenigii Linn. commonly known as Meethi neem, belongs to the family Rutaceae. The curry tree is native to India and it is found almost everywhere in the Indian subcontinent excluding the higher level...

An experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of methanolic extracts of Murraya koenigii Spreng. (Curry leaf) and Morus alba Linn. (Mulberry leaf) on the age of attainment of puberty, relative ovary and uterus weight and the number of ovarian surface follicles in female Wistar albino rats. The rats were reared from 20 to 70 days of age in six groups consisting of eight rats in each group....

Murraya koenigii Spreng has been traditionally claimed as a remedy for cancer. The current study investigated the anticancer effects of girinimbine, a carbazole alkaloid isolated from Murraya koenigii Spreng, on A549 lung cancer cells in relation to apoptotic mechanistic pathway. Girinimbine was isolated from Murraya koenigii Spreng. The antiproliferative activity was assayed using MTT and the ...

The hypoglycaemic effect of aqueous leaf extract of Murraya koenigii was studied in normal and alloxan-induced diabetic rats. The extract was administered orally at 100 mg/Kg, 150 mg/Kg and 200 mg/Kg bodyweight each to respective groups of animals (Groups I, II and III) for seven days. Group IV received normal saline and served as control for the normal rats. For the alloxan-induced diabetic ra...