Amaranthus spinosus Linn. (Amaranthaceae) is found throughout India. This tree species has been of interest to researchers because it is a medicinal plant employed in the Indian traditional system of medicine. Pharmacognostic standardization; physico-and phytochemical evaluation of the roots of Amaranthus spinosus was carried out, to determine its macro-and microscopical characters, and also so...

1. TVES’s Hon’ble Loksevak Madhukarrao Chaudhari, College of Pharmacy, Faizpur , Tq: Yawal, Dist: Jalgaon. Pin:425503 Abstract The wound healing effect of herbal cream formulated with Curcuma longa, and Cynodon dactylon embedded in different ointment bases (anionic, cationic and non-ionic) has been evaluated in vivo using the incision, excision and dead space tissue wound models, on Swiss wiste...

Problem statement: Oxidative stress has been implicated in the pathophysiology of many neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). In traditional practices of Ayurvedic medicine, numerous herbs have been used to treat cognitive disorders. Terminalia Chebula (Combretaceae; TC), is a well-known Ayurvedic herbal remedy which possesses an antioxidant activity. The scientific litera...

Objective: We investigated the protective effects of the herbal formulation in androgen-deprived rat bladder. Methods: Male rats aged 8 weeks were randomly divided (n=8 in each): sham operation only (normal control), androgen-deprived only (androgen-deprived control), androgen-deprived followed by treatment with 200 and 400 mg/kg. After leuprorelin 0.5 mg/kg was subcutaneously injected in andro...

This study investigated the antioxidative effect of rooibos herbal tea and a rooibos-derived commercial supplement on tert-butyl hydroperoxide- (t-BHP-) induced oxidative stress in the liver. Forty male Wistar rats consumed fermented rooibos, unfermented rooibos, a rooibos-derived commercial supplement, or water for 10 weeks, while oxidative stress was induced during the last 2 weeks via intrap...

Due to their complexity, multicomponent herbal drugs pose enormous analytical challenges for quality control (QC). Although they may have traditionally been used for hundreds of years, the information about their chemical composition is often still limited. Selecting suitable markers to monitor the identity and potency of the mixture is, therefore, difficult. There is also the possibility of na...

Herbal medicines have been widely used around the world since ancient times. The advancement of phytochemical and phytopharmacological sciences has enabled elucidation of the composition and biological activities of several medicinal plant products. The effectiveness of many species of medicinal plants depends on the supply of active compounds. Most of the biologically active constituents of ex...

Objective: We investigated the protective effects of the herbal formulation in androgen-deprived rat bladder. Methods: Male rats aged 8 weeks were randomly divided (n=8 in each): sham operation only (normal control), androgen-deprived only (androgen-deprived control), androgen-deprived followed by treatment with 200 and 400 mg/kg. After leuprorelin 0.5 mg/kg was subcutaneously injected in andro...

BACKGROUND The dried fruit of Forsythia suspensa (Thunb.) Vahl. (Oleaceae) are better known by their herbal name Forsythiae Fructus, and have a bitter taste, slightly pungent smell, and cold habit. FF has been widely used to treat symptoms associated with the lung, heart, and small intestine. Recently, bioactive compounds isolated from hydrophobic solvent fractions of FF have been reported to h...