Medicinal plants have played a vital role in drug production. Using plant extracts directly has proved to be risk-free. In the current studies, Crude extracts of Caralluma fimbriata stem were used to investigate its antibacterial activity along with their phytochemical screening .Antibacterial assay was carried out by agar disc diffusion technique. Zones of inhibition around the bacterial colon...

India being a rich and varied flora of medicinal plants since the Vedic period. The present study deals with the scientific validation of Ficus racemosa Linn. with special reference to its pharmacognostical and phytochemical investigations. This is commonly known as gular, fig and is known to have medicinal properties, also even used as home remedies in the rural and the remotest parts of the I...

Solanum nigrum(Black Nightshade) is a medicinal plant member of the Solanaceae family of plants. This family comprises many genera, well known for their therapeutic properties. In addition to S. nigrum, this family includes fruits and vegetables such as potato (Solanum tuberosum), tomato, peppers, ornamental plants such as petunia, and other medicinal plants.The present work is focused on the p...

The aim of my research was to screen secondary metabolites and antimicrobial activities of methanolic extracts of the leaves Vernonia amygdalina and Plantago lanceolata, and acetone extracts of the leaves Rosmarinus officinalis and Thymus schimperi against two bacteria (Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli) and two fungi (Aspergillus niger and Fusarium oxysporum) using paper disc diffusio...

Medicinal plants are of great importance to the health of individuals and communities. A large number of plants are claimed to possess the anti-diabetic, anti-fertility, antihyperlipidaemic, anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer, hepatoprotective and immunomodulatory activities in the traditional therapeutic systems. It is now believed that nature has given the cure of every disease in one way or anot...

The analgesic and anti-inflammatory potentials of the ethanol leaf extract of Spathodea campanulata , a Nigerian traditional medicinal plant was studied using cold, thermal and chemical-induced pain models, and carrageenan-induced acute inflammation in rats. The acute toxicity and the phytochemical constituents of the extract were also determined. The results showed that the extract (250-1000 m...

objectives this study was designed to determine the chemical composition, in vitro antioxidant activity, and total phenol content of various extracts of s. chloroleuca. materials and methods dried aerial parts of the plant were crushed, then sequentially extracted with n-hexane, ethyl acetate, and methanol. the fractions of s. chloroleuca were subjected to silica gel column chromatography and s...

Bermudagrass [Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.] is a perennial grass and has been long used as a medicinal herb in Iranian traditional medicine to treat varied ailments. Different parts of bermudagrass such as leaves, stolons, rhizomes and culms are rich sources of metabolites such as proteins, carbohydrates, mineral constituents, β-sitosterol, flavonoids, alkaloids, glycosides and triterpenoides. G...

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 ...