(Japanese name “Tsurureishi”) is cultivated as a vegetable in Asian countries. In Chinese, Indian Ayurvedic, and Indonesian Jamu traditional medicines, the fruit of this plant has been used as a bitter stomachic, a laxative, an antidiabetic, and an anthelmintic for children. Recently, the alcoholic extract from the fruit of M. charantia originated in Sri Lanka was reported to inhibit the increa...

Oral administration (200 mg/kg) of Foeniculum vulgare fruit methanolic extract exhibited inhibitory effects against acute and subacute inflammatory diseases and type IV allergic reactions and showed a central analgesic effect. Moreover, it significantly increased the plasma superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase activities and the high density lipoprotein-cholesterol level. On the contrary, th...

Objective: The present study was aimed to evaluate therapeutic potential of Helicteres isora (L.) which holds the potential of an anticancer drug. Methods: We have examined the anticancer properties of ethanolic extract of fruits of H. isora on two cancer cell lines from different origins with different p53 status namely, MCF7 and HT29. Different in vitro cell assays were conducted to evaluate ...

Background: Ribes biebersteinii (Rb) is one of pharmaceutical plants which was used in traditional medicine for decreasing blood sugar. Objective: In this study, effect of aqueous fruit extract of Rb on blood sugar of rats was investigated. Methods: In this research 60 male Wistar rats were categorized randomly in 10 equal groups with two timeframes (7 & 14 days). Extraction of Rb was perfor...

Chronic ethanol consumption leads to oxidative stress in the heart and erythrocytes of rats. As Ziziphus jujuba fruit has been shown to have potent antioxidants, such as flavonoids, we conducted this study to evaluate the effects of aqueous fruit extracts from Z. jujuba on rat hearts and erythrocytes following chronic ethanol consumption. Twenty-eight male Wistar rats were randomly divided into...

Narcissus is one of the very popular flowers among Iranians. This flower has a short life. To investigate the increasing of vase life of cut Narcissus, sour orange fruit extract in concentrations of 2.5, 4, 5.5 and 7 ml L-1 and sucrose in concentrations of 3, 4, 5 and 6% were used. In addition, distilled water was used as a control treatment. In this experiment, characters of vase life and perc...

BACKGROUND The medical application of pomegranate fruits and its peel is attracted human beings. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the in vitro α-Glucosidase inhibition, antimicrobial, antioxidant property and in vivo anti-hyperglycemic activity of Punica granatum (pomegranate) fruit peel extract using Caenorhabditis elegans. METHODS Various invitro antioxidant activity of fruit pe...

Fruit peels of Banana, Pomegranate, Sweet lime and Orange are highly rich in potash, ion, Zinc etc. Above fruit peels powder were formulated from the trace amounts and gradually increased for the preparation of three formulations as Formulation 1, Formulation 2 and Formulation 3. Three different formulations were applied for plant growth in two methods such as fruit peel powder, fruit peel powd...

Abstract The experiment was conducted on Rawa area at Al-Anbar governorate, western of Iraq, during 2021 and 2022 seasons by using 72 olive trees (Ashrasi cultivar) treated with 0, 15, 25 kg per tree from composted common reed waste cow, sheep, poultry manure, also 0 or 50 liters aqueous extract compost. results the statistical analysis showed that Olive were 80 % 20 manure compost its water ex...