Anti-acetylcholine and Anti-histamine Actions of the Total Alkaloids of Rauwolfia serpentina Benth

Comparative Activity of Reserpine and Total Alkaloids of Rauwolfia serpentina Benth

Rauwolfia serpentina has come to stay with the modern medical profession as a useful therapeutic agent. It would be easily the best remedy so far discovered from amongst Indian folk lore and it will be a matter of time involving wide field trials before the drug finds its exact role in the management of two challenging medical problems namely ‘hypertension’ and ‘neuropsychiatric’ conditions. Ho...

The Total Alkaloids of Rauwolfia serpentina* in the Treatment of High Blood Pressure

Hypertension is a many-sided disease both in its causes and symptoms. To judge the success or failure of its treatment, it is therefore necessary to adduce several different criteria. Since there is no absolute criterion in the complex symptoms of hypertension by which the success of the therapy can be conclusively judged, all investigations regarding the value of any hypertension-therapy must ...

Docking Studies of Rauwolfia Serpentina Alkaloids as Insulin Receptor Activators

Rauwolfia serpentina also known as Sarpagandha is an integral part of Ayurvedic medical system for over centuries for the treatment of various ailments. The leaves and roots of Rauwolfia serpentina contain alkaloids which are secondary metabolites. Major alkaloids identified are Reserpine, Rauwolfine, Serpentine, Sarpagine, Ajmaline, Yohimbine and Ajmalicine. Insulin binds to insulin receptors ...

Preliminary Observations on the Use of Rauwolfia Serpentina Benth. In the Treatment of Mental Disorders

Rauwolfia Serpentina in Essential Hypertension

jHauwolfia serpentina has been known as a medicinal plant in India for a long time but its use in the treatment of hypertension is of comparatively recent origin. The dried root contains 1 per cent of total alkaloids besides resin, starch, potassium carbonate, phosphate, silicate and traces of iron and manganese (Sen and Bose, 1931). Siddiqui and Siddiqui (1931) found two groups of alkaloids an...