Incidence of cancer is growing swiftly worldwide and sparse supply of anticancer drugs; unaffordable cost and its lethal effect have shown the way to adopt complementary and alternative medicine for the treatment and/or prevention of cancer. The isolation of anti-cancer alkaloids vinblastine, vincristine and podophyllotoxins during 1950s prompts research on anticancer agents from plant origins....

an extract of henna (lawsonia inermia) was found to be active in vitroagainst gram (+) and gram (-) bacteria including bacillus anthracis, b.cereus, b. subtilis, enterobacter aerugenes,escherichia coli 0128-b7, e.coli 055-b5, e. colio127-b8, proteus mirabilis, p. vulgaris, pseudomonas aeruginosa salmonella typhosa, s.paratyphi, sarcina sp. shigella dysenteriae type 1, s. dysenteriae type 7, s. ...

Anticonvulsant activity of the methanolic extract of Prosopis Cineraria (Linn) Druce stem barks was studied against maximal electro shock (MES) and Pentylenetetrazole (PTZ) induced convulsions in mice. The extract suppressed hind limb tonic extensions (HLTE) induced by MES and also exhibited Protector Effect in PTZInduced Seizures. In conclusion, the methanolic extract of Prosopis Cineraria (Li...