Pimenta dioica commonly known as Allspice was used by early Central American civilizations as a flavoring for chocolate and found to have good anti-microbial action. The current study was therefore carried out to provide requisite pharmacognostic details about the plant. The results of the study could be useful in setting some diagnostic indices for the identification and preparation of a monog...

BACKGROUND Nowadays, plants have been considered as powerful agents for treatment of disorders due to their traditional use. Plants have a special role in the treatment of various diseases in Ayurveda. Liver disorders with their devastating outcomes have been discussed in Ayurveda as well. OBJECTIVES In the present study, polyherbal products (L52 and L38) were retrieved from Ayurveda and its ...

Background: Polycarpaea corymbosa is one of the plants cited as ‘Parpata’ in Ayurvedic literature and indicated for boils, inflammatory swellings, and ulcers. Aim: The present study is an attempt to generate and encompass the data of physical parameters for ascertaining the identification and develop a validated HPTLC method for quantification of lupeol in P. corymbosa. Materials and Methods: T...

The natural dyes separated from plants are of gaining interest as substitutes for synthetic dyes in food and cosmetics. Thespesia populnea (T. populnea) is widely grown plant and used in the treatment of various diseases. This study was aimed to separate natural dye from T. populnea bark and analysis of its dyeing property on different fabrics. In this investigation pharmacognostic study was ca...

Allium wallichii (A. wallichii) Kunth is considered one of the underutilised, threatened, and unexplored medicinal plant species having several beneficial health-promoting actions. Moreover, being so popularised in both ethnobotanical traditional systems, still, less studied terms proper pharmacognostic standardisation. The main objective current work to establish standard pharmacognostic, phys...

Author details Center for Drug Discovery and Biodiversity, Institute of Scientific Research and Technology Services (INDICASAT), Panama, Panama. Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology of Diseases, Institute of Scientific Research and Technology Services (INDICASAT), Panama, Panama. Faculty of Natural, Exact Sciences and Technology, University of Panama, Panama, Panama. Center of Pharmacognos...

Katphala or Kaiphala, botanically equated with plant Myrica esculenta Buch. - Ham., is an important bark drug of Indian systems of medicine. It is one of the plant species, which are under imminent danger of extinction from U. P. Himalayas. Since, no pharmacognostic study on this drug is on record, the present investigations has been undertaken. In this article, macroscopic and microscopic char...

Background: Urtica dioica L. is a common Himalayan species which produces allergenic substances causing oedema and inflammation in humans. It has become a source of folk medicine for the treatment of many diseases. The leaves and roots both are used internally as a blood purifier and diuretic and an infusion of the plant is used for nasal and menstrual haemorrhage, diabetes, rheumatism, eczema,...

The aim of this study was to establish pharmacognostic profiles of dried leaf powder of Cardiospermum halicacabum Linn. and dried seed hull powder of Hydnocarpus pentandra (Buch.-Ham.) Oken. The present study investigates various qualitative and quantitative parameters like microscopic evaluation of plant powder, physicochemical constants and preliminary phytochemical analysis. Microscopic eval...