BACKGROUND Tragia belongs to the family Euphorbiaceae which contains about 152 species. Interestingly, most of the earlier investigations have been done using only five Tragia species, namely, Tragia involucrata, Tragia cannabina, Tragia spathulata, Tragia plukenetii, and Tragia benthamii. The objective of the present review is to compile the phytochemical, pharmacological and biological studie...

we describe, for the first time, the life history of the joker butterfly, byblia ilithyia drury and larval performance in terms of food consumption and utilization, and the length of life cycle on its host plant tragia plukenetii a. r. smith. our study was conducted throughout 2007 in the andhra university campus and the zoo park area, 5 km away from the campus, at visakhapatnam (17â° 42' ...

Sir,?I noticed in the " British Medical Journal" of the 28th September last, page 719, a communication from Mr. Oldacres, M.B.C.S., that by handling the plant named Primula obconica an obstinate rash is produced, attended with dyspeptic symptoms. 1 beg to bring to your notice that there are two plants in this part of the country, very common in shady places, known as the Tragia eannaMna and Tra...

Tragia is well known in the botanical world a stinging plants. Apart from this, genus also occupies an important constituent of alternative systems medicine as ethnobotany. Among various species Tragia, most studied and experimented T. involucrata. This used for several ethnobotanical uses such cancer, diarrhea, constipation, scorpion bite, rheumatism, whooping cough diabetes. this ayurvedic si...

In Traditional Ayurvedic system of treatment Tragia involucrata Linn. is intended to use for diabetic patients has been screened for antioxidant activity. For antioxidant studies, aqueous ethanolic extract of Tragia involucrata (AEETI) was administered orally for 28 days at a dose of 250 and 500 mg/kg body weight to StreptozotocinNicotinamide induced Wistar rats. All the animals were sacrificed...

The present investigation was aimed to study an antiepileptic activity of methanolic extract of Tragia involucrata Linn in mice. In vivo screening models like maximal electroshock-induced convulsion (MES), pentylenetetrazole (PTZ) and picrotoxin (PTX) induced models are used to evaluate the antiepileptic effects of the extracts. The biochemical estimation was done by measuring the lipid peroxid...