Presently, researchers have been given remarkable attention to complementary and alternative medicine to deal with cancer treatment from medicinal plants mainly due to its fewer side effects and ease availability. Several scientific studies deeprooted the anticancerous property of Ocimum sanctum Linn., a traditional medicinal plant commonly known as Tulsi. The chemopreventive and radiopreventiv...

Traditional Medicines derived from medicinal plants are used by about 60% of the world's population. This review focuses on Indian Herbal drugs and plants used in the treatment of diabetes, especially in India. Diabetes is an important human ailment afflicting many from various walks of life in different countries. In India it is proving to be a major health problem, especially in the urban are...

The Methanolic leaves extract of Ocimum gratissimum was investigated for anti-inflammatory effects in rats. The model used to study the effect on anti-inflammatory is Formalin Induced rat paw edema. The extract demonstrated a significant (P< 0.001) anti-inflammatory activity at all the doses (50,100 and 200 mg/kg body weight i.p.) tested group and standard group (aspirin 20mg/kg) compared to co...

Endophytic mycopopulation isolated from India's Queen of herbs Tulsi (Ocimum sanctum) were explored and investigated for their diversity and antiphytopathogenic activity against widespread plant pathogens Botrytis cinerea, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, Rhizoctonia solani and Fusarium oxysporum. 90 fungal isolates, representing 17 genera were recovered from 313 disease-free and surface sterilised pl...

Background: Ocimum gratissimum (OG) is used in the traditional management of diabetes in Nigeria. This study investigated the anti-diabetic potential of OG leaf fractions (OGLF) in a rat model of Type-2 diabetes (T2D). Method: Methanol crude extract of OG leaf was fractionated with solvents of increasing order of polarity (n-hexane, chloroform, ethyl-acetate, n-butanol and water). The anti-diab...

Stem bark of Acacia nilotica, Delbergia sissoo, Delonix regia, Polyalthia longifolia, Prosopis cineraria, and Zyziphus mauritiana, and leaves of Catharanthus roseus, Mentha arvensis, Murraya koinigii, Ocimum basilicum, Tabernaemontana divaricata, Tinospora cordifolia and Tribulus terrestris were analyzed for their total phenolic and flavonois content as well as antioxidant activity. Stem bark o...

Isozymes are enzymes with different molecular forms due to the differences in amino acid residues and exhibits same catalytic activity. Isozymes were also reported as biochemical genetic markers and widely used to study genetic diversity in plants. Differential expression of isozymes has attributed with different developmental stages, tissue specificity, stress factors etc. Accordingly, the exp...

BACKGROUND There has been a steady rise in number of patients suffering from dementia including dementia associated with Alzheimer's disease. Effective treatment of Alzheimer's disease dementia is an unmet medical need. OBJECTIVE To evaluate effects of formulation containing combination of Phyllanthus emblica (Pe) and Tinospora cordifolia (Tc) with and without Ocimum sanctum (Os) on learning ...

Basil (O. gratissimum L) is a aromatic and medicinal plant widely used in traditional medicine in Morocco. The aim of this work was to study the effect of three plant growth regulators gibberellic acid (GA), indole 3-acetic acid (IAA) and benzylaminopurine (BAP) on the content and composition of essential oils of this plant, especially on the main compound (methyl chavicol) and its isomer (the ...