Asthmatic patients are more subjected to continuous oxidative stress. Roosting the antioxidant defenses of asthma patient could be beneficial as it may help thwart symptoms of the lung disease and asthma. Considering these facts different plant extracts and phytoconstituents with proven anti asthmatic property had been subjected to antioxidant study at various combinations using Diphenyl Vicryl...

Euphorbia neriifolia Linn. (Euphorbiaceae) is commonly known as Indian Spurge Tree in English, and Sehundah in Ayurveda. Its leaves are traditionally used for treatment of various diseases like inflammation, fever, asthma, cough, wounds, ulcers, cancers and diabetes. In the present study an attempt has been made to highlight this folk herbal medicine which will assist in the identification of f...

Hibiscus sabdariffa L. (Hs, roselle; Malvaceae) has been used traditionally as a food, in herbal drinks, in hot and cold beverages, as a flavouring agent in the food industry and as a herbal medicine. In vitro and in vivo studies as well as some clinical trials provide some evidence mostly for phytochemically poorly characterised Hs extracts. Extracts showed antibacterial, anti-oxidant, nephro-...

Anti-acne herbal formulations are used for the treatment of acne vulgaris with the added advantage of not producing adverse effects unlike synthetic drugs. Phytoconstituents present in methanolic extracts of Camellia sinensis (CSME), Glycyrrhiza glabra (GGME) and Calendula officinalis (COME) have antibacterial and antioxidant properties. Validated HPTLC fingerprinting confirmed the presence of ...

PURPOSE As a typical Chinese herbal medicine, Radix Glycyrrhizae (RG) possesses various pharmacological effects involved in antioxidant ability. However, its antioxidant has not been explored so far. The aim of the study was to investigate its antioxidant ability, then further discuss the antioxidant mechanism. METHODS RG was extracted by ethanol to obtain ethanolic extract of Radix Glycyrrhi...

The efficacy of Liposem, a polyherbal formulation, as an antioxidant and hypolipidaemic drug was evaluated in diet induced hyperlipidaemia in rats. The methanolic extract of Liposem was found to scavenge hydroxyl and superoxide free radicals, the IC50 required being 70.5 and 45.0 microg respectively. The lipid peroxidation in rat liver homogenate induced by Fe2+ ascorbate system was also found ...

Herbs and herbal drugs have created interest among the people due to their various clinically proven effects and lack of side effect. Moreover the overuse of synthetic drug which result in higher incidence of adverse drug reaction, has motivated the human to revert to nature for safer herbal medicines. The current review focuses on Asanadi gana (group of drugs) and its potential in the treatmen...

Corresponding Authors: A. Nishadh Email: [email protected] Abstract: In this study, we have examined the protective effect of Vernonia cinerea against carbon tetrachloride (1.0ml / kg b.wt / day) administered intraperitoneally for 2 days in male albino Wistar rats. The levels of aspartate transaminase, alanine transaminase, lactate dehydrogenase, alkaline phosphatase, bilirubin, creatinine, a...

Herbal infusions of nine traditionally used medicinal plants were screened for total phenolic content (TPC), radical scavenging activity (RSA) and oxidative DNA damage protecting capacity by chemical assays. The TPC was determined in order to know its correlation with RSA. The extracts of T. cordifolia and C. spectabilis presented highest TPC values (34.21 ± 0.93 and 28.36 ± 1.05 mg GAE/g) and ...

This study investigates in vitro targets related to diabetes in 30 herbal extracts from Peru, for the first time, using α-glucosidase, aldose reductase (AR) inhibitory assays and 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) and 2,2'-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid) (ABTS) scavenging assays. Among the 30 herbal extracts, Hypericum laricifolium Juss. (HL) was the herb which showed more t...