Himatanthus articulatus (Vahl) Woodson is a tree found in the northern Amazon savannahs (common name: sucuba) that is used in local Amerindian medicine. Leaf, bark and branch wood methanol extracts, sequentially obtained hexane, ethyl acetate and methanol extracts and latex were evaluated for antifungal and antibacterial activities against American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) and local clini...

The mineral compositions of the 8 wild edible fruits were investigated. Nitrogen, sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium and phosphorus were analyzed as the major constituents of the fruits and iron, zinc, copper and manganese were identified as a minor constituent. Among all the mineral, Potassium were found in large quantity in all fruits. Ficus racemosa L., fruit contain the highest amount of...

The anthelmintic activities of different extracts of aerial parts of Celsia coromandeliane Vahl and Mollugo pentaphylla Linn were evaluated separately on adult Indian earthworm (Pheritima posthuma). It was found that petroleum ether (PECC), chloroform (CCC), ethanol (ECC) extract of C. coromandeliane and petroleum ether (PEMP), benzene (BMP), ethyl acetate (EAMP), ethanol (EMP) extract of M. pe...