Mango butter was explored as a functional, natural supplement and active skin ingredient in skin care formulations. A foot care cream was developed with mango butter to evaluate its medicinal value and protective function in skin repair. Qualitative comparison and clinical case studies of the product were carried out. Wound healing potential of foot care cream was investigated on the rat excisi...

Saffron is one of the highly exotic spices known for traditional values and antiquity. It is used for home décor besides serving as a colorant flavor and is widely known for medicinal value. Over the last few years, saffron has garnered a lot of interest due to its anti-cancer, anti-mutagenic, anti-oxidant and immunomodulatory properties. Integration of systems biology approaches with wide appl...

Mushrooms have been known for their nutritional and culinary values and used as medicines and tonics by humans for ages. In modern terms, they can be considered as functional foods which can provide health benefits beyond the traditional nutrients. There are monographs that cover the medicinal and healing properties of some individual traditional mushrooms. There has been a recent upsurge of in...

Naturally derived plant products with medicinal value play an important role in health care systems, both in humans and animals. This is evident with the growing interest in their utilisation on a global perspective in the treatment of different ailments (Farnsworth and Morris, 1976; Farnsworth and Soejarto, 1985; Farnsworth, 1988; Balandrin, et al., 1993). In the crude form, medicinal plants c...

Rauwolfia serpentina medicinal value well known in various system of medicine all over the world. Reserpine is an indole alkaloid and is important constituent of Rauwolfia which is reported to posses anti hypertensive and tranquilizing activity. In the present study High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography has been developed for quantification of Reserpine in Rauwolfia and its allied preparat...

Momordica dioica is a perennial, dioecious, cucurbitaceous climbing creeper (commonly known as kakrol, spiny gourd or teasle gourd). It is native to Asia with extensive distribution in India and Bangladesh. It is used not only as preventive and curative agent for various diseases but also as vegetable with a significant nutritional value over thousands of years. This review aims to take an atte...

BACKGROUND The "horchata" is a herbal mixture infusion consumed in Southern Ecuador. It remains unknown how vendors group the plant species to sell them at traditional markets. This research documented the following: 1) a list of medicinal plant species sold for the drink; 2) the culturally important medicinal plant species; 3) the agreement among vendors regarding the medicinal plants species ...

Organic Medicinal ChemicalsBy M. Barrowcuff and Francis H. Carr.' Published by Messrs. BaiujERE, Tindali, and Cox, London. Price 151net. This volume is one of the Industrial Chemistry series, edited by Samuel Rideal and deals with the Synthetic Medicinal Chemicals. The various chemicals dealt with are, for the most part, grouped in sections according to their therapeutic uses. Numerous processe...

Plant drugs have been in use for the treatment of diseases since times immemorial. Due to over exploitation, destructive mode of collection, and other biotic and abiotic factors, a number of medicinal plants are facing genetic erosion and are under the threat of extinction. Curculigo orchioides Gaertn. commonly known as Kali Musali is an endangered medicinal plant and as such required to be con...

Article history: Received on: 11/10/2013 Revised on: 07/12/2013 Accepted on: 22/12/2013 Available online: 30/12/2013 Ethanolic extracts of three medicinal plants collected from South India were analyzed for their activity towards acetylcholinestrase (AChE) enzyme. The AChE inhibition was measured spectrophotometrically. All the three species namely, Baliospermum montanum, Humboldtia brunonis Wa...