Background: In the field of traditional medicine, there has been a great deal of research on the effects exhibited by medicinal material components and their mechanisms of action. However, since there are no systematic resources of components of medicinal materials, effort to investigate these components on a study-by-study basis is required. Several medicine databases have already been built u...

The National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) record of plants that have shown significant inhibitory effect in experimental tumor systems (active plants), 1960–1974, was compared with species and genera in references on medicinal folklore, including poisonous plants, to determine whether their percentages of active plants were significantly greater than those screened at random (10.4%). The percent ac...

Medicinal plants are considered as key sources of drugs for the treatment of various ailments worldwide. The flora of Pakistan due to its highly favorable diverse climatic and soil conditions, many topographical regions and ecological zones offer a great variety of medicinal plants [1]. According to a general survey, approximately 6000 flowering plants exist in Pakistan, out of which 400-600 ar...

From ancient days, medicinal plants are useful for the treatment of several diseases and disorders. Our traditional system or in Ayurvedic Industry is purely depend on the medicinal plants. Day to day many fruitful result came in the treatment of disease from Ayurvedic research which are having benefit of no side effects. One of the tropical medicinal Plants is Annona squamosa ; it has been use...