ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE This paper presents results of an ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants used for the management of candidiasis and related fungal infections in the Venda area, South Africa. MATERIALS AND METHODS Ethnobotanical data about the uses of plants were gathered from eleven rural traditional healers using semi-structured interviews. RESULTS A total of 45 species b...

BACKGROUND Strychnos potatorum Linn (Loganiaceae) is a moderate sized tree found in southern and central parts of India, Sri Lanka and Burma. In traditional system of medicine, Strychnos potatorum Linn seeds were used for various ailments including inflammation, diabetes etc. To investigate the folkloric use of the seeds the present study was carried out on Freund's adjuvant induced arthritic r...

Ganpat, a Hindu male aped 45 years, was admitted to the Civil Dispensary, Sheopur, on the 18th February, 1934, for retention of urine. On cursory examination he was found with congenital phimosis with a pin-point central opening through the prepuce. On manipulation the glans penis appeared rather hard which led me to think that the prepuce must be firmly adherent to it. No probe or director cou...

This publication treated the determination (qualitative) and quantification (quantitative) of steroidal flavonoids constituent molecules in Strychnos spinosa pips. These were extracted by esterification between pips citric acid a reflux assembly such as evaluated total moles substance’s organic functions, deduced bibliographies values, which could reacted with was excess. Thus, weight ra...

Eleven main alkaloids were identified from cell suspension cultures of Rhazya stricta grown in 4X-medium for 15 days. The alkaloids comprised the five groups Corynanthe, Strychnos, Eburnan, Secodine, and Aspidosperma and can be regarded as being typical Rhazya alkaloids, al­ though the Strychnos alkaloid akuammicine has been isolated for the first time from the genus Rhazya. The most abundant c...

A library of new 2,2'-bis(diphenylphosphinoyloxy)-1,1'-binaphthyl (binapo)-type chiral diphosphonite ligands was designed and synthesized based on chiral 3,3',5,5',6,6'-hexasubstituted biphenols. These bop ligands have exhibited excellent efficiency in a palladium-catalyzed intermolecular allylic amination reaction, which provides a key intermediate for the total synthesis of Strychnos indole a...