From ancient days, medicinal plants are useful for the treatment of several diseases and disorders. Our traditional system or in Ayurvedic Industry is purely depend on the medicinal plants. Day to day many fruitful result came in the treatment of disease from Ayurvedic research which are having benefit of no side effects. One of the tropical medicinal Plants is Annona squamosa ; it has been use...

Medicinal plants mentioned in the ayurvedic classic Basavarajeeyam are enumerated.

the effect of prepared ayurvedic formulation was evaluated on excision and incision wound models in rats. the wound-healing activity was assessed by the rate of period of epithelialization and skin-breaking strength. histological study of the granulation tissue was carried out to know the extent of collagen formation in the wound tissue. the ayurvedic formulation prepared was then promoted for ...

Ayurveda is the ancient (before 2500 b.c.) Indian system of health care and longevity. It involves a holistic view of man, his health, and illness. Ayurvedic treatment of a disease consists of salubrious use of drugs, diets, and certain practices. Medicinal preparations are invariably complex mixtures, based mostly on plant products. Around 1,250 plants are currently used in various Ayurvedic p...

The paper highlights some of the most important Ayurvedic medicinal plants of North Eastern India having anticancer potential. A brief review of distribution and pharmacological study (both in vivo and in vitro) of ten Ayurvedic medicinal plants of the region published by various researchers is illustrated in this paper. The medicinal plants discussed here are Enhydra Fluctuans Lour (Sanskrit: ...

This review deals with the key bioactive compounds and the role of medicinal plants in Ayurvedic systems of medicine in India and their earlier investigation. There has been an increase in demand for the Phytopharmaceutical products of Ayurvĕda in Western countries, because of the fact that the allopathic drugs have more side effects. Many pharmaceutical companies are now concentrating on manuf...

Medicinal herbs are significant source of synthetic and herbal drugs. In the commercial market, medicinal herbs are used as raw drugs, extracts or tinctures. Isolated active constituents are used for applied research. For the last few decades, phytochemistry (study of plants) has been making rapid progress and herbal products are becoming popular. According to Ayurveda, the ancient healing syst...

The paper deals with the use of various medicinal plants during the Ayurvedic process of Panchakarma, a cleansing process that eliminates toxins from the body thereby curing diseases and revitalizing the human body. The five stages (Karmas) of Panchakarma along with the pre-treatment and post-treatment processes have been systematically designed to achieve this purpose. Several medicinal plants...

Hortus Malabaricus is the oldest important printed book on Indian medicinal plants. The 1(st) of its 12 volumes was published in 1678 from Amsterdam this book, written by H.A. Van Rheede is perhaps the only authentic record of the ethnoiatrical knowledge of ancient Malabar, available to us today. Several hundred medicinal plants which were successful used by the Ayurvedic physiclans of 17(th) c...