Medicinal herbs are well known and studied over the past millennia in most of developing countries as a rational means treatment against various diseases disorders. Wedelolactone (WDL), major bioactive compound Eclipta prostrata L (Eclipta alba L), has been reported with potential benefits human health chronic diseases. However, comprehensive study on WDL pharmacological ailments, to best our k...

Eclipta alba, an indigenous medicinal plant, has a folk (Siddha and Ayurvedha) reputation in rural southern India as a hypoglycemic agent. In order to confirm this claim, the present study was carried out to evaluate the antihyperglycemic effect of E. alba and to study the activities of liver hexokinase and gluconeogenic enzymes such as glucose-6-phosphatase and fructose 1,6-bisphosphatase in t...

ObjectiveHypertension is a common disorder rising in incidence once established treatment is obligatory. The causes, so also the drugs are many & usually the treatment is lifelong. Hence research is going on to find out a suitable & safe drug. Herbal products in this regard are worthy of investigation. Eclipta alba Hassk (Bhringaraja) is recently reported to have diuretic & antihypertensive act...

Eclipta prostrata, an aromatic plant, is known in Chinese herbal medicine for the treatment of various kidney diseases. In the present study, the volatile components were isolated from the aerial parts of this plant by hydrodistillation and analysed by GC-MS. A total of 55 compounds, which were the major part (91.7%) of the volatiles, were identified by matching mass spectra with a mass spectru...

Andrographolide and wedelolactone are active components of Andrographis paniculata and Eclipta alba, respectively. The extracts of these plants are used in many traditional hepatoprotective formulations. An attempt has been made to develop an accurate, precise and specific HPTLC method to quantify simultaneously both these chemical markers of diversified chemical structures in different dosage ...

Eclipta alba (compositae) is an important medicinal herb found as a weed throughout India. Almost all of its parts are used in traditional system of medicine including seeds, roots and shoots and leaves. The review reveals that a number of phytochemical constituents have been isolated from the plant which possess pharmacological activities like antibacterial, antifungal, diuretic, antiinflammat...

The tribe Rhinotragini is a highly diverse assemblage of species; several of the genera that currently have a large number of species assigned to them are polyphyletic in nature and are in need of additional study and revisionary work. Because of this need for revisionary work, it is not currently possible to construct meaningful keys for the existing species or the ones described in the follow...