My attention was first called to the subject, some years ago, by a brother officer when I was stationed in a very damp district where diarrhoea and dysentery wero not uncommon complaints. I was myself then attacked with the latter form of disease, which rapidly disappeared under bael treatment. Since then I have been frequently in localities where European medical offieera were not always prese...

Aegle marmelos, Bilwa (AM) and Psidium guajava, Guava, (PG) leaves were screened for phytochemicals by sequential extraction using a series of solvents. The antioxidant components such as β-carotene, α-Tocopherol, glutathione, ascorbic acid, total polyphenols and flavonoids were also analyzed. In addition, the leaves were extracted with methanol (ME), ethanol (EE) and water (WE) and the polyphe...

Lectins are a class of ubiquitous proteins/glycoproteins that are abundantly found in nature. Lectins have unique carbohydrate binding property and hence have been exploited as drugs against various infectious diseases. We have isolated one such novel lectin from the fruit pulp of Aegle marmelos. The isolated lectin was partially characterised and its effect against Shigella dysenteriae infecti...

Background: Our objective was to evaluate the antibacterial efficacy of Acacia nilotica, Aegle marmelos herbal extracts against Enterococcus faecalis- an invitro study. Methods: The extraction nilotica bark powder and leaf done with following three solvents (Ethanol, methanol acetone) keeping vancomycin as a positive control. Then study groups were assigned follows: group I: II: marmelos, III: ...

BACKGROUND Bael (Aegle marmelos (L.) Corr.) has been widely used in indigenous systems of Indian medicine to exploit its medicinal properties including astringent, antidiarrheal, antidysenteric, demulcent, antipyretic, antiulcer, anti-inflammatory and anti cancer activities. The present study aims to evaluate the antioxidative and antiulcer effect of methanolic extract of unripe fruit of Aegle ...

BACKGROUND Aegle marmelos (L.) Correa has been widely used in indigenous systems of Indian medicine due to its various medicinal properties. However, despite its traditional usage as an anti-diarrhoeal there is limited information regarding its mode of action in infectious forms of diarrhoea. Hence, we evaluated the hot aqueous extract (decoction) of dried unripe fruit pulp of A. marmelos for i...

Plants historically have served as models in drug development. The production of medicines and the pharmacological treatment of diseases began with the use of herbs. The antifungal activity of five different plants namely, Aegle marmelos, Carica papaya, Mentha arvensis, Nicotiana plumbaginifolia and Tamarindus indica were tested against plant pathogenic fungi Alternaria alternata. The plant ext...

Aegle marmelos, is a medicinal plant from India, used for treating cancer-related symptoms in the Indian system of medicine. Its leaf, root, bark, seed and fruits are valued highly as Ayurvedic medicine. In the present study, the active fraction of Aegle marmelos was found to induce apoptosis in Hep G2 cells through NFκB deactivation followed by activation of proapoptotic factor p53. To evaluat...

Aegle marmelos Correa (Rutaceae) is a prominent species in the Sub-Himalayan region, also found in central and south India, and has been widely used as remedy for diarrhea and dysentery. Unripe fruits show antiviral activity and prove to be a potent hypoglycemic agent. In this study, a high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method for the simultaneous quantification of major furocoumarin...

Bacterial endophytes are known to reside inside tissues of plants and can form a variety different relationships including symbiotic, mutualistic, commensalistic ammensalism. There has been increasing evidence, that endophytic bacteria stimulus plant growth significantly by the production phytohormones analogous PGPR activity. In present study, leaf explants 6 medicinally important viz. Abrus p...