OBJECTIVE There are a number of medicinal plant products which has been used to treat various immunological diseases. Out of these medicinal plants, Calamus rotang has shown several medicinal properties including anti-viral, anti-diabetic, anti-inflammatory effects. Normally, the roots of C. rotang are used in various ailments to cure piles, burning sensation, cough, leprosy and bleeding disord...

Medicinal herbs are the significant source as Diuretics. Mono and poly-herbal preparations have been used as diuretics. According to one estimate, more than 650 mono and poly-herbal preparations in the form of decoction, tincture, tablets and capsules from more than 75 plants are in clinical use. There exist a large number of studies which supports the diuretic effects of traditional herbal med...

Lycium species is a popular medicinal plant in the traditional Chinese medicine and Lycium ruthenicum is a native medicinal plant of Iran. Lycium genus has several biologically important properties too. Investigation of chemical composition of ethyl acetate extract of this plant is the goal of this study. Two coumarins (Scopoletin and Sculetin) and Methyl-2-hydroxy-4-undecanoxy-trans-cinamate w...

background & aim: during human history, most of infectious diseases have been cured with herbal drugs traditionally so that, nowadays, in most developing countries, herbal drugs play an important role in primal remedy. this study has been done according to the appropriate climate and biodiversity of plants in golestan province in order to investigate the antimicrobial activity of alcoholics...

Background: Plant extracts have been used in traditional medicine for the treatment of various maladies including neurological diseases. Several central nervous system receptors have been demonstrated to interact with plant extracts and components affecting the pharmacology and thereby potentially playing a role in human disease and treatment. For instance, extracts from Hypericum perforatum (S...

The use of medicinal plant resources in the biosynthesis metallic nanoparticles (MNPs) is remarkable nanobiotechnology for its unique physicochemical and biological properties such as morphological diversity, large surface area by volume proportion, conductivity, stability, dispersity, toxicity to microbes, or cancerous cells. Active phytochemicals bioactive compounds various plants flavonoids,...

The well known medicinal plant, Cichorium intybus L. (Asteraceae) contains dietary oligofructose compounds which have beneficial effect on carbohydrate and lipid metabolism, other compounds e.g. polyphenol type derivatives could be responsible for the antioxidant properties reported in several studies before. Male Fischer rats were kept on normal and lipid rich diet supplemented with chicory ex...

Antioxidants lavishly present in many natural source attributed their capability of slowing or preventing the oxidation of other molecules, helpful in the prevention of many age-related diseases and promotion of health. This study is designed to evaluate the antioxidant properties of the methanolic leaf extracts of Abroma augusta. After collection, drying, grinding and extraction, final extract...

The bark extract of the medicinal plant Detarium microcarpum was analysed for its carbohydrate content by GLC-CIMS. Preparative HPLC of the benzoylated carbohydrate fraction led to the isolation of L-quino-1,5-lactone, D-(-)-bornesitol, D-pinitol, myo-inositol, sucrose, D-glucose, and D-fructose benzoates, which were characterised by NMR spectroscopy experiments.