Too much of stress and strain of life especially after the middle age, may lead to one of the stress diseases e.g. Hypertension, Asthma, Diabetes, Arthritis, Migraine, Headache etc. As the developing countries are also becoming more and more industrialised, the number of these diseases are increasing at a very fast rate. Hence, there is an urgent need for taking proper measures to prevent the d...

T he petroleum ether (60-80°C) ex tract of OcilllulIl sanCIUln root was tested fo r pentobarbitone induced hypnosis in mice. The root extract or vehicle was admi nistered (i.p. ) and after 30 minutes pentobarbito ne sodium (35 mg/kg) was admini stered. The explo ratory behavi our like Water Maze Test was studi ed by imparting training to mice ill a rec tangular tank ha ving holes to escape, fil...

Rauwolfia serpentina medicinal value well known in various system of medicine all over the world. Reserpine is an indole alkaloid and is important constituent of Rauwolfia which is reported to posses anti hypertensive and tranquilizing activity. In the present study High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography has been developed for quantification of Reserpine in Rauwolfia and its allied preparat...

Chlorpromazine, a widely used tranquilizing drug of the phenothiazine group, was found to be a very potent photochemical inactivator of both deoxyribonucleic acid and ribonucleic acid viruses in the presence of long-wave ultraviolet light (320 to 380 nm). Neither the light alone nor chlorpromazine alone caused any appreciable inactivation. The known chlorpromazine photoreactions with nucleic ac...

Clitoria ternatea L. (CT) (Family: Fabaceae) commonly known as 'Butterfly pea', a traditional Ayurvedic medicine, has been used for centuries as a memory enhancer, nootropic, antistress, anxiolytic, antidepressant, anticonvulsant, tranquilizing and sedative agent. A wide range of secondary metabolites including triterpenoids, flavonol glycosides, anthocyanins and steroids has been isolated from...

Over the years, evidence has been accumulating [1, 2] that selenium is an essential nutrient in animals, preventing various serious deficiency diseases. On the other hand, no such firm proof for the need of selenium in human nutrition has been established, although several instances of beneficial effects as a result of selenium supplementation of human diet have been reported [3-5]. Although va...

This compound (Ro-4-1778) 'which is chemically (l-(p-chlorophenethyl)6-7dimethoxy-2-methyl 1, 2, 3, 4 tetrahydro isoquinoIine) was synthesised by Brossi et aI. (1960). Its analgesic activity in rats has been reported by Gupta and Gaitonde (1964). An observation was made that the drug produced analgesia in a dose range 10-50 mg/Kg, but in a few animals receiving a dose of 50 mg/Kg., there wasan ...