Vinca rosea (Catharanthus roseus L.) is native to the Caribbean Basin and has historically been used to treat a wide assortment of diseases. European herbalists used the plant for conditions as varied as headache to a folk remedy for diabetes. The objective of the study is to evaluate the diabetic wound healing activity of Vinca rosea using the excision wound model in a streptozotocin induced d...

Vinca rosea (fam. apocynaeceae) is a medicinal plant commonly grown in Indian gardens and a native of West Indies. Various parts of this plant have been reported to exert antidiabetic, hypotensive and antileukemic property (1-3). Significant hypoglycemic and antihyperglycemic activity of water soluble fraction of alcoholic extract of leaves of Vinca rosea in rats have already been reported by t...

The present study was carried out to evaluate the antidiabetic activity of Vinca rosea methanolic whole plant extracts in alloxan induced diabetic rats for 14 days. The methanolic whole plant extract at high dose (500 mg/kg) exhibited significant anti-hyperglycemic activity than whole plant extract at low dose (300 mg/kg) in diabetic rats. The methanolic extracts also showed improvement in para...

INTRODUCTION Among Triskandhas (three pillars) of Ayurveda, Oushadha (medicine) plays an important role as it serves both the purposes of Ayurveda i.e. maintenance of health and treatment of disease. Classics of Ayurveda quoted plenty of drugs, some of which still not have been identified. Classical drugs are quite often substituted due to the lack of morphological descriptions. Most of these d...

Climate change is altering spring snowmelt patterns in alpine and arctic ecosystems, and these changes may alter plant phenology, growth and reproduction. To predict how alpine plants respond to shifts in snowmelt timing, we need to understand trait plasticity, its effects on growth and reproduction, and the degree to which plants experience a home-site advantage. We tested how the common, long...

vinca minor, vinca major, vinca variegata and vinca rosea are different species of vinca genus, of apocynaceae family. in addition to ornamental applications, they are placed in the group of medicinal plants , because of the various alkaloids they possess. the purpose of this research was the investigation of the antileishmanial effects of the methanolic and crude extracts of leaves and stems o...