Medicinal plants are of great importance to the health of individuals and communities. A large number of plants are claimed to possess the anti-diabetic, anti-fertility, antihyperlipidaemic, anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer, hepatoprotective and immunomodulatory activities in the traditional therapeutic systems. It is now believed that nature has given the cure of every disease in one way or anot...

In West Africa and Nigeria in particular, many virgin plants are still waiting to be evaluated for their medicinal importance. Claims of plants with folk medicinal applications need to be evaluated and verified. Gomphrena celosioides (family - Amaranthaceae) is a weed grown in lawns and the biological activity of the extract had earlier been established. In the present study, the plant was coll...

Herbal medicines are respected for its medicinal values through generations. Areca catechu is commonly called as betel nut belonging to the family Arecaceae. Phytochemicals are the non-nutritive substances that protect the plant and human beings from diseases when consumed. In the present investigation, the aqueous extract of Areca catechu nut was analysed for the varieties of phytochemicals an...

Methanol extract of three Nigerian medicinal plants were screened for antimicrobial activity using modified Kirby-Bauer disc diffusion and agar dilution techniques to determine the diameters of zone of inhibition and minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) of the extracts respectively. The extract of each of the plants were tested against five clinical bacterial isolates comprising of two Gram-...

Seven indigenous medicinal plants, Mallotus philippensis, Pogostemon cablin, Colebrookea oppositifolia, Mussaenda macrophylla, Celosia argentea, Pilea symmeria and Thysanolaena maxima, have been investigated for their antimicrobial activity and antioxidant activity. The ethanol extract of these medicinal plants were subjected to evaluate their antibacterial properties and their antioxidant pote...

Objective: Bryophyllum pinnatum (Lam.) Kurz. is a medicinal herb commonly used to treat ulcers, cough, diabetes and cancer. In this study, antibacterial and antioxidant activity of aqueous and methanolic extracts of root, stem, leaf and whole plant of Bryophyllum pinnatum (Lam.) Kurz. have been evaluated. Method: In the present study, methanolic and aqueous extracts of root, stem, leaf and whol...

Caparis spinosa Linn. popularly known as Caper plant is a naturally occurring medicinally important plant of the family Capparaceae. This plant has highly diverse economic and medicinal value in different system of medicine like, Unani, Chinese, Ayurvedicand Arabic. Various parts of C. spinosa are used as drug to treat different diseases especially against hepatic and renal problems. Extract of...

a wide range of medicinal plant parts that possess varied medicinal properties are used for extracts as raw drugs. in this study, the ethanolic extract obtained from aerial parts of fennel (foeniculum vulgare mill.) seedlings was evaluated in vitro to examine their antimicrobial activity against four gram-negative and three gram-positive bacteria and two fungi. aerial parts of one-month-old see...

Plants are used an excellent source of drugs, and some of the currently available drugs were derived from the plant sources. In the developing countries, plant and plant-derived products still play an important role in the medical health care system. Some of the modern medicine i.e. aspirin, anti-malarial, anti-cancer and digitalis have derived from the plant source. Plants and phytochemical ha...

Derris brevipes, a common medicinal plant, has multiple uses in traditional system of medicine and in particular it is used as a memory-enhancing agent for centuries. The plant and its extracts have been evaluated for number of activities like anti-inflammatory, cardio-tonic, sedative and neuron-muscular. The plant extract was evaluated for Antimutagenicity and mutagenicity studies in order to ...