BACKGROUND In Cameroon herbs are traditionally used to meet health care needs and plans are on the way to integrate traditional medicine in the health care system, even though the plans have not been put into action yet. The country however has a rich biodiversity, with ~8,620 plant species, some of which are commonly used in the treatment of several microbial infections and a range of diseases...

The basic objective of this work was to identify and estimate the active constituents present in the herb Coldenia procumbens Linn. A survey of literature showed that the plant has not been exploited properly and remains a silent drug in herbal medicine. In this work, the coumestan derivative wedelolactone was identified in the methanolic extract of the plant by TLC. The concentration of wedelo...

Plant secondary metabolites play significant roles in plant-environment interactions. Plant derived secondary metabolites are compounds that can be widely used in industry, medicine, food sciences etc. In this review, we summarize the research methods applied to analyse biosynthetic pathways of plant secondary metabolites. Moreover we present an up to date overview of the studies that were perf...

The whole plant of Jussiaea suffruticosa Linn. Has been widely used in traditional medicine of India. Important bioactive molecules of the plant extract have been explored with modern phytochemical approaches and reported to consist of betulinic acid, quercetin and β- sitosterol. Furthermore, the experimental data obtained from rational clinical studies indicated that the methanol extract of th...

Ravi Gupta, Yiming Wang, Ganesh K. Agrawal, Randeep Rakwal, Ick H. Jo, Kyong H. Bang and Sun T. Kim* 1 Plant Functional Genomics Laboratory, Department of Plant Bioscience, Life and Industry Convergence Research Institute, Pusan National University, Miryang, South Korea 2 Plant Proteomics Group, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany 3 Research Laboratory for Biotech...

The plant of Oscimum sanctum commonly known as “Tulsi”, belong to Lamiaceae family. It is an erect, much branched, fragrant and erected plant attaining a height of about 20-50 cm. Different parts of the plant are used in Ayurveda and Siddha systems of medicine for prevention and cure of many illnesses like cough, influenza, common cold, headache, fever, colic pain, bronchitis, asthma, hepatic d...

Plant-made biopharmaceuticals have long been considered a promising technology for providing inexpensive and efficacious medicines for developing countries, as well as for combating pandemic infectious diseases and for use in personalized medicine. Plant virus expression vectors produce high levels of pharmaceutical proteins within a very short time period. Recently, plant viruses have been emp...

Though the majority of people in Kenya and at Kopsiro Division in particular, rely on ethnomedicinal plant species to manage human ailments, the indigenous knowledge largely remains undocumented. Therefore, an ethnobotanical study was conducted on medicinal plant species used to manage human ailments at Kopsiro Division Mt. Elgon District Kenya. The objectives were to identify and document plan...

Fenugreek is an medicinal plant that use in disease some therapy. This plant use  for blood lipids and sugar decreasing in diabetic and non diabetic peoples and have antioxidant and antibacterial activity. The plant contains active constituents such as alkaloids, flavonoids, steroids, Saponins etc. It is an old medicinal plant. It has been commonly used as a traditional food and medicine. Fenug...

AbstractTrianthema portulacastrum Linn used as traditional medicine, is a plant of the family Aizoaceae is a prostrate, glabrous, succulent annual herb. The plant is found almost throughout India as a weed in cultivated and wastelands. The plant has a remarkable protection against the drug induced diseases due to the presence of active phytoconstituents. In this present study, we discussed abou...