AIMS The current study was designed to document medicinal plant species that are traditionally used to treat tuberculosis (TB) by Ghanaian communities. METHODS The medicinal plants used against TB or its signs and symptoms were selected using library and online published data searches. A guided questionnaire interview was also conducted with a botanist involved in plant collection at the Cent...

Aloe arborescens Miller var. natalensis Berger (Japanese name Kidachi aloe) is widely used in Japan, not only as a traditional remedy for gastrointestinal complaints, skin injury and burns, but also as an ingredient in health foods (Fujita, 1993; Yamamoto et al., 1995; Beppu et al., 2003). Previously, we demonstrated that freeze-dried whole leaves of Aloe arborescens var. natalensis (hereinafte...

The prizes of sanitary napkins must come under the purchase capacity of lower income group in developing countries like India. Due to unhygienic menstrual habits of using unsanitized cloth, husk, sand etc., a large number of women suffer from “reproductive tract infections” that is about 70% in India. To reduce the product cost, flax (Linum usitatissimum L.), carding waste fibre was used as abs...

Bacterial endophytes are known to reside inside tissues of plants and can form a variety different relationships including symbiotic, mutualistic, commensalistic ammensalism. There has been increasing evidence, that endophytic bacteria stimulus plant growth significantly by the production phytohormones analogous PGPR activity. In present study, leaf explants 6 medicinally important viz. Abrus p...