In the present review, an attempt has been made to congregate the botanical, phytochemical, ethnomedicinal, pharmacological and toxicological information on Ocimum sanctum Linn. (OS, Tulsi), a medicinal herb used in the indigenous system of medicine. OS has been adored in almost all ancient ayurvedic texts for its extraordinary medicinal properties. It is pungent and bitter in taste and hot, li...

Ocimum sanctum L. is commonly named Tulsi in India, an herb belonging to the Lamiaceae family. It has enormous medicinally valuable essential oils such as eugenol, oleanolic acid, carvacrol, linalool secondary metabolites. used treat various diseases Ayurveda and also processes of several pharmacological properties antioxidant, antifungal, antibacterial, antidiabetic, antifertility, hepatoprote...

The capability of the bio-control agent Trichoderma harzianum to trigger plant growth and improvement in biomass response was investigated by inoculating roots of medicinal plant (Ocimum sanctum) seedlings with Trichoderma harzianum in pots, under aseptic, green house environmental conditions. Trichoderma harzianum was isolated from ten different agro climatic zones of Karnataka. Biological and...

Essential oils as defined by the European Pharmacopeia 7th edition “Odorant products, which have complex composition, and obtained from plant raw extract, either extracted steam of water, dry distillation or a suitable mechanical method without heating. Generally, physical is used for separation essential oil aqueous phase has no significant change in its chemical composition”. The are differen...

Since aging is the most important risk factor for variety of diseases, the discovery of a wide range of chemical modulators of aging in model organisms encourages new strategies for targeting age associated diseases. Simple genetic manipulation leads to long-lived and healthy animals, so any compound which could have similar effect would prove a boon to mankind. In the present study, effect of ...

The chemotherapy of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) has several limitations including resistance and toxicity of the existing drugs. Down regulation of immune system further aggravates the problems. To combat this situation we evaluated the leishmanicidal efficacy of Boerhaavia diffusa and Ocimum sanctum through oral route in L. donovani infection in BALB/c mice. Results have demonstrated maximum c...