Patients with a polyherbal prescription are more likely to receive duplicate medications and thus suffer from adverse drug reactions. We conducted a population-based retrospective study to examine the items of Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) per prescription in the ambulatory care of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in Taiwan. We retrieved complete TCM ambulatory visit datasets for 2010 from th...

Glycosmis pentaphylla, Tridax procumbens, and Mangifera indica are well-known plants available throughout India and they are commonly used for the treatment of various diseases including diabetes mellitus. The antidiabetic activity of the individual plant parts is well known, but the synergistic or combined effects are unclear. The concept of polyherbalism has been highlighted in Sharangdhar Sa...

Objective of the study was to assess the antidiabetic activity of a polyherbal formulation in alloxan induced diabetic rats. Methods: The antidiabetic activity of a polyherbal formulation in alloxan induced diabetic rats was assessed using Alloxan βcytotoxin induced chemical diabetes in a wide variety of wister albino rats. Result: The polyherbal formulation contain the following plants leaves ...

OBJECTIVES To formulate a polyherbal formulation and evaluate its antiarthritic activity against Freund's complete adjuvant induced arthritis in Female Wistar rats. MATERIALS AND METHODS Glycosmis pentaphylla, Tridax procumbens, and Mangifera indica are well-known plants available throughout India and they are commonly used for the treatment of various diseases including arthritis. The polyhe...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the antidiabetic and lipid lowering potential of a polyherbal formulation of six different Indian medicinal plants. Animals were divided into groups as follows: (a) normal control; (b) high fat diet control; (c) high fat diet + streptozotocin (STZ) control; (d) high fat diet + STZ + polyherbal formulation; and (e) high fat diet + STZ + rosiglitazone....

An extract of nishyinda (Vitex negundo) leaves, black pepper (Piper nigrum) and cinnamon (Cinnamomum verum) (polyherbal extract) were used as growth promoter in broilers. A total of 20 day-old broiler chicks were purchased and after seven days of acclimatization randomly divided into two equal groups. No vaccination schedule was practised and no antibiotics were added in rations. Group A served...

Atherosclerosis is one of the risk factors for coronary artery disease. The present study highlights the antiatherosclerotic activity of Methanolic extract of polyherbal preparation in experimentally induced atherosclerotic rats. Atherosclerosis was developed in male Albino Wistar rats, which were randomly divided into five groups of six animals each; by feeding with high cholesterol diet for 2...

Elephantopus scaber and Clinacanthus nutans are traditionally used as wound healing herb. The objective of the present study is to develop a new polyherbal formulation, by comparison, the herbal combination of Elephantopus scaber and Clinacanthus nutans as an in vitro antioxidant activity with their individual herbal activity followed by fractionation of polyherbal formulation for in vivo wound...

Polyherbal extract which consists of ethanolic extract of MadhucaLatifolia, AristolochiaBracteata, AristolochiaIndica was investigated for its possible antidiabetic effect in alloxan-induced diabetic rats and to assess the synergistic activity of three plants. The animals were grouped into four six animals each. The first group received normal saline solution(0.9% sodium chloride), which was us...

The study is an attempt to investigate diuretic activity of ethanolic extract of a polyherbal formulation of three drugs Bryophyllum pinnatum, Syzigium aromaticum & Ocimum sanctum by in-vivo method described by Lipschitz et al. (1943). In the present study, the extract of polyherbal formulation (Bryophyllum pinnatum, Syzigium aromaticum & Ocimum sanctum) was found to possess significant activit...