Uttarakhand is characterized by a rich diversity of ethno-medicinal plants as well as a rich heritage of traditional medicine. Since ancient times, plants have been an exemplary source of medicine. Ayurveda and other Indian literature have mentioned the use of plants in treatment of various human ailments. Medicinal plants play an important role in the management of diabetes mellitus especially...

Ethnopharmacological knowledge is common and import among tribal populations but much of the information is empirical at best lacking scientific validation. Despite widespread use of plant resources in traditional medicines, bioassay analysis of very few plant species have been conducted to investigate their medicinal properties, and to ascertain safety and efficacy of traditional remedies. The...

Azadirachta indica is a fast growing, evergreen tree found commonly in India, Africa and America. Neem is one of the most useful traditional medicinal plant in India. It is a highly esteemed tree with several beneficial properties and applications, especially known for its incredible therapeutic and ethnomedicinal values for mankind. It has been used in different medicinal systems: Ayurveda, un...

In the absence of a desired first choice medicinal herb, classical Ayurveda recommends use of a functionally similar substitute. Post 16th century Ayurvedic texts and lexicons give specific examples of possible substitutes. Here we report a preliminary study of one such Ayurvedic substitution pair: Musta (Cyperus rotundus L., Cyperaceae), a common weed, for the rare Himalayan species, Ativisha ...

Pharmaceutical industries are still in the hunt of effective scavengers for free radicals from the unexplored medicinal plants. About 80,000 species of plants are utilized for treating various diseases in different systems of Indian medicine. Many pharmaceutical companies giving importance in plant-derived drugs mainly due to the current widespread belief that 'Green Medicine' is safe and more ...

Even today, plants remain a primary source of health care for majority of the population in the world. More than 80% population in the rural areas of the world is dependent on plant based traditional medicines including traditional systems of medicine such as Ayurveda, Unani and traditional Chinese medicine. These medical practices originated from time immemorial and established imbibing ancien...

Consistent neglect of complex psychobiological processes involved in human health and diseases often leads to pharmacological discrepancies between preclinical and therapeutic observations. Numerous other pharmacological paradoxes arise from common practices of using dosing schedules in preclinical studies not identical to those in clinical studies. An Ayurveda centered holistic psychopharmacol...

Caesalpinia digyna Rottl. (Caesalpiniaceae) is shrubby perennial climber found in Eastern Ghats. Roots are astringent and used in Ayurveda and Unani systems of medicines. Bergenin, Caesalpinine A and Caesalpinine C were isolated from the roots. However, this medicinal plant has not been studied pharmacognostically. Hence, the present investigation reports pharmacognostical and physicochemical p...

Since ancient times, plants have been an exemplary source of medicine. Ayurveda and other Indian literature mentioned the use of plants in treatment of various human ailments. Medical plants play an important role in the management of diabetes mellitus especially in developing countries where resources are meager. Oral hypoglycemic agents like sulphonylureas and biguanides are still the major p...