Alpinia galanga is rhizome, generally known as Greater galangal and is selected for isolation of newer constituents accountable for various therapeutic activities. Present study is intended to isolate glycoside from Alpinia galanga rhizomes. Alpinia galanga methanolic extract was column chromatograph and eluted with ethyl acetate-methanol (99:1) to isolate compound β-Sitosterol Diarabinoside. H...

The aim of the work is to develop a simple, rapid, selective and cost effective HPTLC method for the determination of galangin in Alpinia galanga & Alpinia officinarum. The HPTLC densitometric technique was therefore, selected for the quantitative and qualitative determination of galangin in Alpinia galanga and Alpinia officinarum respectively. There are different analytical methods were used t...

1'-Acetoxychavicol acetate (ACA) is a phenylpropanoid present in Alpinia galanga (L) Willd syn. Languas galanga. The objective of this study was to isolate 1'-Acetoxychavicol acetate (ACA) from acetone extract of Alpinia galanga (AEAG) and evaluate anti-arthritic activity of 1'-Acetoxychavicol acetate (ACA) and acetone extract of Alpinia galanga (AEAG) on complete Freund’s Adjuvant-induced arth...

Plants have been a source of medicine and a major resource for health care since ancient times, with some traditional herbal medicines having been in use for more than 2,000 years. Herbs and spices are recommended for prevention and cure of various diseases including cancer. Alpinia galanga and Alpinia officinarum, botanical cousin to ginger was recognized superior in many ways and has been emp...

Rasna is an ayurvedic drug. Alpinia galanga, Alpinia calcarata and Pluchea lanceolata are used as source plants of Rasna. The two species of Alpinia are used in Kerala and in North India Pluchea lanceolata is used as the source of rasna. This paper deals with the morphological, anatomical and histological comparisons of rhizomes of the two species of Alpinia and root of Pluchea lanceolata. For ...

Alpinia galanga Linn. (Zingiberaceae) presents many chemical constituents of the volatile oil extracted from the rhizome. The rhizome of Alpinia galanga is used by people in many regions for relieving toothache, abdominal pain, muscular swelling and rheumatism. This study was performed to determine the antinociceptive and anti-inflammatory activities of a methanolic extract of Alpinia galanga. ...

Alcoholic extracts of the rhizomes of Alpinia galanga, Andrographis paniculata, bark of Cinnamomum zeylanicum, rind of Citrus decumana, Desmodium triflorum, seeds of Hydnocarpus wightiana, rhizomes of Kaempfaria galanga, Lippia nodiflora, tender leaves of Morinda citrifolia, rhizomes of Pollia serzogonian, Tephrosia purpuria and rhizomes of Zingiber zerumbeth showed good in vitro anthelmintic a...

BACKGROUND Alpinia galanga (L.) Willd. commonly called as Rasna, Greater galangal or Kulinjan is a medicinally important rhizome used in Indian traditional system of medicine to cure a number of ailments. A. galanga is the main source of a galangin -a medicinally important flavanol which has a number of pharmacological properties viz. anti-mutagenic, and anti-inflammatory. Due to the high deman...

background: alpinia galanga l. belonging to the family zingiberaceae is widely grown in the state of kerala, india. they are effective antioxidant and free radical scavenger under both in vitro and in vivo condition. the efficacy of the isolated flavonoids in conferring protection from radiation induced damages to genomic dna was studied. materials and methods: the bioflavonoids, galangin and k...