Bacopa monnieri Linn. is an important medicinal plant belonging to family scrophulariaceae. Bacopa is a neurotonic, immuno-modulator, tranquilizing, memory and learning enhancing, cerebral activator, anti-ulcer, antispasmodic, anti-asthmatic. It is also used in Epilepsy, anxiety and depression. Major component of Bacopa are saponins Bacoside A and Bacoside B. The cell suspension culture of Baco...

The book supplies us with a much-needed monograph on sterols and steroids. The author traces the history of their investigation up to the beginning of the nineteenth century and from that time up to the beginning of 1937 he gives references to all relevant literature. There was much confusion as to nomenclature in the older literature and he has given us the new and more rational names along wi...

Legume consumption appears to lower serum chtr lesterol and to increase cholesterol saturation of bile, but the mechanisms of these effects have not been established. We studied nine human subjects on a metabolic ward during two randomly ordered 6-7 week periods: one during consump tion of a control diet and the other during consumption of' the same diet with 120 gm mixed legumes substituted fo...

The bark of the tree of Terminalia arjuna has been used in cardiac disorders in Ayurveda. In the Rigveda, the word Arjuna is used for the first time. The preclinical studies in modern medicine suggest that there are strong antioxidant properties of Terminalia arjuna and reduction of ischemic perfusion injury. It also causes attenuation of oxidative stress and antifibrotic activity has been show...

genus and is predominately distributed in the tropical region of Asia, the Pacific Islands, and Australia. Taccalonolides, anthocyanins, diarylheptanoids and diarylheptanoid glucosides, steroidal sapogenins and steroidal glycosides such as C-27 steroidal saponins, C-28 sterol glucosides and withanolide glucosides have been isolated from some Tacca species. Tacca plantaginea (HANCE) is a perenni...

nongjia Forest District, a National Natural Protection Region of China. Most of them were recorded to be used as anti-inflammatory agents in the folk. Kaikoujian, the Chinese name of rhizomes of Tupistra chinensis BAK., is a reputed folk medicine in that district because of its potent to markedly reduce carbuncles and to ameliorate pharyngitis. In the course of our studies on the native folk me...

Trigonella foenum-graecum seed powder (TSP) has been reported to have hypoglycemic and hyperinsulinemic action. The objective of the study was to examine the antidiabetic and neuroprotective role of TSP in hyperglycemiainduced alterations in blood glucose, insulin levels and activities of membrane linked enzymes (NaKATPase, CaATPase), antioxidant enzymes (superoxide dismutase, glutathione S-tra...