The heavy metal contents of some selected medicinal plants sampled from different geographical locations

Assessment of Heavy Metal Contents of Some Indian Medicinal Plants

The present study was carried out to quantitatively analyze the levels of six potentially toxic heavy metals viz., arsenic (As), lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), mercury (Hg), chromium (Cr) and nickel (Ni) in ten important Indian medicinal plants. The air dried powdered plant materials were subjected to microwave assisted wet digestion for the preparation of test samples. The samples were analyzed by u...

Antioxidant Activity, Phenolic and Flavonoid Contents of Echium Species from Different Geographical Locations of Iran

Iranian Echium species (Boraginaceae), popularly known as "Gol-e-Gavzaban" are native plants that some of them have been used widely as food and traditional medicine since long times. In this work organs from different populations of two Iranian Echium species were collected from their natural locations in order to analyze their phenolic content and antioxidant activity. Hydroalcoholic extracts...

Heavy metal content in some therapeutically important medicinal plants.

Antimicrobial Studies of Some Selected Medicinal Plants

Antimicrobial activities were detected in the 80% ethanolic extract of Achyranthes aspera, Ficus glomerata, Leucas aspera, Thespesia populnea and Zizyphus jujube against Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae and salmonella typhi. The treatments resulted in the formation of various inhibitory zones, in contrast to the control where no inhibitory zone was observed.

Some Selected Medicinal Plants with Antidiabetic Potentials

Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder that is characterized by hyperglycemia associat‐ ed with impairment in insulin secretion and/or insulin action as well as aberrations in intermediary metabolism of carbohydrates, proteins and lipids. Several reports indicate that annual incidence rate of diabetes mellitus will increase in the future worldwide, especial‐ ly in the developing countries [1...