emergence of resistance among pathogenic bacteria against available antibiotics is posing a great challenge to the current world. thus, there is a great need to discover novel antibiotics. traditional plants have been proved to be novel source in the search of antimicrobial compounds. the current study pertained to the susceptibilities of some clinically significant bacterial species to various...

Abstract Background Cognitive impairment mainly affects learning and problem solving abilities of the person. Traditional medicines, due to fewer side effects, more efficacy lesser cost are still choice treatment in India. The main objective present study is explore nootropic potential ethanol extract Elettaria cardamomum Maton fruits. was conducted by using exteroceptive behavioral models like...

Background: In Ayurveda, single or multiple herbs mixed in a particular proportion are used for the treatment of different diseases. Caturjata Curna (CC) is popular Ayurvedic medicine with therapeutic application tastelessness, diseases due to vitiated Kapha, poisoning and discoloration. The present study an attempt standardize polyherbal CC. Methods: CC was prepared by mixing equal ingredients...

BACKGROUND The main goal of the work was to analyse intraspecific variation in Elettaria cardamomum Maton (cardamom) using genome size, cytological studies and molecular marker data. Nuclear DNA content and molecular marker details furnish data on genome size and genetic diversity respectively among the studied accessions and both complement each other for evolutionary and taxonomic studies. ...

The volatile compounds obtained from the ether extracts, headspace gases and steam distillates of Alpinia japonica and Elettaria cardamomum were analyzed by GC/MS. Both species were rich sources of naturally rare fenchane-type monoterpenoids, fenchene, fenchone, fenchyl alcohol and its acetate, together with 1,8-cineole. The distributions of volatile sesquiterpenoids were very poor in both spec...