Medicinal Plants As Antibacterial Agents

Medicinal Plants as Immunosuppressive Agents in Traditional Iranian Medicine

Medicinal Plants as Anti-Ulcer Agents

Peptic ulcer disease (PUD) is considered as one of the common diseases in the world. Treatment of peptic ulcer with synthetic drugs such as proton pump inhibitors, H2 receptor antagonists and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs has shown adverse effects, relapses, drug interactions. Medicinal plants containing active chemical constituents are useful in prevention and treatment of variou...

Medicinal Plants as Hypocholes-terolemic Agents

Medicinal plants as source of antibacterial agents to counter Klebsiella pneumoniae

Article history: Received on: 12/11/2013 Revised on: 10/12/2013 Accepted on: 27/12/2013 Available online: 30/01/2014 Several antibiotics are in use to treat different diseases caused by human pathogenic microorganisms. It is being observed that the invented medicines are not much effective in treatment, as the infection causing microbes are becoming resistant and modifying themselves into multi...

Zulu medicinal plants with antibacterial activity.

Aqueous, methanolic and ethyl acetate extracts of 14 plants used in traditional Zulu medicine for treatment of ailments of an infectious nature were screened for antibacterial activity. Most of the activity detected was against gram-positive bacteria. Tuber bark extracts of Dioscorea sylvatica had activity against gram-negative Escherichia coli and extracts of Dioscorea dregeana, Cheilanthes vi...