A new species, Phyllanthus mutisianus, is described on the basis of a collection from Colombia made by the expedition of Jose Mutis. It is distinguishable from all other neotropical species of Phyllanthus by virtue of the distinctive leaf venation and very long fruiting pedicels. The type specimen lacks mature flowers, but the vegetative morphology, inflorescence, and fruiting structures sugges...

Four experiments evaluated AMLA temporal version accuracy to measure relative luminosity in people with and without color blindness and, consequently, to provide the essential information to avoid poor figurebackground combinations in any possible “specific screen-specific observer” pair. Experiment 1 showed that two very different apparatus, a sophisticated photometer and a common luxometer, p...

Herbs have always formed an integral part of human health and are used in the treatment of several human diseases. One of such species which have wide patronage of use is Phyllanthus amarus. This herb is in traditional medicine for more than 3,000 years. The plant has also served as lead for several experimental investigations that explored its phytochemical constituents and pharmacological use...

The study was conducted on Vencobb broiler chicks to ascertain the antistress affects of Zist, Zeetress and a combination of Amla and Turmeric during summer, rainy and winter seasons and thereby the haematological changes of birds revealed that during all the three seasons a marked improvement in Haemoglobin was encountered in all the three groups where herbal preparations were supplemented. A ...

A pot experiment was conducted to study the effects of aqueous extracts of some herbal plant leaves viz. bael (Aegle marmelos), amla (Phyllanthus emblica), beleric myrobalan (Terminalia belerica), arjuna (Terminalia arjuna), neem (Azadiracta indica), horitoki (Terminalia chebula) and water (as control) with three replications on germination and seedling growth of three vegetables namely turnip ...

"Triphala", the Ayurvedic wonder is used traditionally for the treatment of different types of diseases since antiquity. The hydroalcoholic extracts of the three components of Triphala powder demonstrated varying degrees of strain specific antibacterial activity against multidrug-resistant uropathogenic bacteria. Terminalia chebula fruit extract was active against all the test isolates followed...

The present study is done to examine and optimize the process of enzyme-assisted extraction of Gallic acid from the dried fruit of Emblica officinalis. The aqueous extraction yielded 12.09% of Gallic acid. A selective extraction process after the treatment with enzymes is proposed by using 30% (v/v) methanol which releases up to 15.68% of the Gallic acid, present in the dried fruit. The optimal...

Stress is a term that generally has a negative connotation, which results in immune dysfunction. In this study, immunomodulatory effect of Triphala (equal proportion of Terminalia chebula, Terminalia bellerica and Emblica officinalis) during noise-stress in male albino rats was evaluated by analyzing the antibody titer, cytokines IL-2-Interleukin (2), IL-4 and IFN-Interferon (gamma) and Pan T, ...