Background: Glycyrrhiza glabra, Terminalia chebula and Hamdard joshanda is used as a traditional home medicine in developing countries that easily available for lesser cost with no side effects. These decoctions made record pandemic have found efficacious Covid-19 patients RTI addition to Dengue Malarial fever. Our study aimed explore the qualitative well quantitative potential medicines such t...

Chemical investigation of the ethyl acetate extract of the endophytic fungus Penicillium thiomii isolated from the medicinal plant Terminalia chebula Retz and cultured on potato dextrose agar led to the isolation of one new compound named terminatone (2) along with three known compounds namely, ergosterol (1), 4-hydroxy benzaldehyde (3) and 4-hydroxy-hexadec-6-enoic acid methyl ester (4). The s...

Inhibition of Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) is still considered as the main therapeutic strategy against Alzheimer's disease (AD). Many plant derived phytochemicals have shown AChE inhibitory activity in addition to the currently approved drugs for AD. In the present study, methanolic extracts of 20 plants used in Indian Ayurvedic system of medicine for improving cognitive function were screened ...

Seventeen Indian folklore medicinal plants were investigated to evaluate antibacterial activity of aqueous, ethanol and acetone extracts against 66 multidrug resistant isolates of major urinary tract pathogens (Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Enterococcus faecalis) by disc diffusion method. Ethanol extract of Zingiber officinale and Punica granatum showed str...

Stored samples of crude herbal drugs and processed powders of Emblica officinalis (Amla), Terminalia bellirica (Baheda), and Terminalia chebula (Haritiki) sold in the market of Gwalior, were analyzed on different fungal culture media for the incidence of fungi and their related mycotoxins. During morphological examination of collected samples a remarkable change was observed in the colour and a...