Traditional system of medicine consists of large number of plant with various medicinal and pharmacological importances and hence represents a priceless tank of new bioactive molecules. Luffa cylindrica found all over the world. It is commonly known as ‘tori’ and has been recognized in different traditional system of medicines for the treatment of varied diseases of human being. The phytoconsti...

of Civil Hospitals, Eastern Bengal and .Assam, were briefly to find out if there was any factor of causation common to the affected jails and not equally to the others, and I was to satisfy myself as to the diagnosis of the cases. My experience of beri-beri has been fairly extensive as I 6aw cases numbering, perhaps, five hundred, in the Tung Wah Hospital, Hong-Kong, in ioqo and 1901, through t...

Argemone mexicana Linn. (Linnaeus, 1753; Tournefort, 1694), is a herb of the Papaveraceae (poppy family) indigenous to the West Indies (Fig. 1). The study of this herb and its active principles is important, first to circumvent the serious epidemics of dropsy and glaucoma resulting from the unintentional ingestion of its seed oil in tropical countries; secondly to find a method of producing in ...