Background: Hyperglycemia may induce endothelial dysfunction. Chromium Supplementation enhances endothelial relaxation and may improve endothelial dysfunction. Present study was planned to evaluate effect of proprietary chromium complex(PPC) and its individual components on endothelial dysfunction and lipid profile in type 2diabetics. Methodology: Study was done in two parts. In part I, PPC 400...

Triphala is a traditional herbal formulation consisting of dried fruits originating from three medicinal plants, namely Terminalia chebula, Terminalia bellirica and Phyllanthus embelica. It is used in folk medicine for the treatment of headaches, dyspepsia and leucorrhoea. There are some reports regarding Triphala"s pharmacological effects including its anti-cancer, radioprotective, hypocholest...

Phyllanthus amarus (PA) is a small herb indigenous to Amazon Basin .It is well known for its medicinal properties and widely used by oriental countries. It is reported to contain lignans,alkaloids,flavonoids,galloatnoids ,glycosides and alkaloids. It possesses antiviral, antiparasitic, antimalarial, antimicrobial, anticancerous, anti-diabetic and anti-Cholesterol agents. It acts on kidney stone...

Phyllanthus wightianus belongs to Euphorbiaceae family having ethnobotanical importance. The present study deals with validating the antimicrobial potential of solvent leaf extracts of P. wightianus. 11 human bacterial pathogens (Bacillus subtilis, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Proteus vulgaris, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Salmonella typhimurium, Esche...

The study on the “Effect of medicinal plant extract treatment on BmNPV polyhedra was undertaken in the Department of Sericulture UAS, GKVK, Bangalore-65. The treated polyhedral bodies with aqueous extracts of different medicinal plants viz., Adathoda vasica, Bougainvillea spectabilis, Phyllanthus niruri, Terminalia arjuna and Pongamia glabra administered to silkworm through mulberry leaves once...

Amla (Phyllanthus emblica L.), apart from its food value, can be used as a gastroprotective agent in non steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID)-induced gastropathy. It has been suggested that the antioxidative property of amla is the key to its therapeutic effect. Hence, on the basis of in vitro antioxidative potential, the ethanolic extract of amla (eAE) was selected for in vivo study in NSA...

In globe, Pyllanthus niruri is a well-established medicinal herb studied by many researchers, grown widely in many parts of West Bengal. The present study was aimed to predict the acute toxicity as LC50 in Daphnia magna and Pimephales promelas and rat oral LD50 value as well as Ames mutagenicity by using QSAR modeling software, T.E.S.T. (Toxicity Estimation Software Tool) for commonly found phy...

Fractionation of plant compounds to produce active purified fractions is a multi-step process, time-consuming and sometimes very expensive. This paper presents a single-step fractionation of tannins from a local plant, Phyllanthus niruri Linn. using supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) method. The effects of operating conditions (pressure, temperature, flow rate, cosolvent content and ethanol-w...