BACKGROUND The use of plants for healing by any cultural group is integrally related to local concepts of the nature of disease, the nature of plants, and the world view of the culture. The physical and chemical properties of the plants themselves also bear on their selection by people for medicines, as does the array of plants available for people to choose from. I examine use of medicinal pla...

Introduction: Imidazole is an entity which is being synthesized in many of its derivative form from past few years; the entity is major source of interest for many of medicinal chemist to explore its various pharmacological potentials. In present article we review the chemistry of imidazole and its pharmacological actions as antihelmintics, anticancer, antifungal and anti-inflammatory agent by ...

ith the shifting of belief from chemically synthesized medicinal drugs associated with adverse side effects, to traditionally used safe medicinal herbs, there is a massive attempt in this field for identifying potent plants as a remedy against various ailments..Ajuga bracteosa, a low perennial herb is one such plant, known to have numerous medicinal properties against various ailments such as a...

Objectives: Neem (Azadirachta indica country like Bangladesg, Indiaand had probably been the most useful medicinal plant in South Asia.From leaf to root, each and every part of the neem treehas also beenused in Bangladesh and neighboring countries for over two thousand years for their medicinal properties. natural products chemists by Ayurveda. achieved regarding the biological activities and m...

This chapter is written with the assumption that the reader has a basic knowledge of organic chemistry and is at least familiar with the terminology used to describe the parts of an organic molecule. The goals of this chapter are to define the term functional group, review the major chemical properties or characteristics inherent to any given functional group, relate these chemical properties o...

Medicinal plants continue to play an important role in modern medications and healthcare as consumers generally believe that most of them cause fewer or milder adverse effects than the conventional modern medicines. In order to use the plants as a source of medicinal agents, the bioactive compounds are usually extracted from plants. Therefore, the extraction of bioactive compounds from medicina...

UNLABELLED Medicinal plants used to treat hypoglycemic and hyperglycemic conditions are of considerable interest to ethno-botanical community as they are recognized to contain valuable medicinal properties in different parts of the plant. The active principles of many plant species with desired properties are isolated to cure ailments such as diabetes type-1 and type-2, respectively. Here, we d...