Volume 2, Issue 3

Pankaj H. Chaudhary, Somshekhar S. Khadabadi

pp. 2–9 · DOI: 10.5530/pc.2012.3.2 · 2012

Plants have been an important source of medicines since the beginning of cultivation. There is a growing demand for plant-based medicines, health products, pharmaceuticals, food supplements, cosmetics etc. Bombax ceiba L…

Deep Shikha Sonkar, Rajiv Gupta, Shubhini A. Saraf

pp. 10–13 · DOI: 10.5530/pc.2012.3.3 · 2012

Introduction:Basella rubra is a plant species commonly known as Poi (family Basellacea) found in almost every part of India, except hills. Poi possesses several folkloric uses, having beneficial effects in haemorrhagic d…

Thatipamula Sandya Rani, Samala Sujatha, Ciddi Veeresham

pp. 14–21 · DOI: 10.5530/pc.2012.3.4 · 2012

Introduction: Herbal antidiabetic preparations are often used as an add-on therapy in diabetes and such herbal preparations often contain curcumin. Hence, in the present investigation the effects of curcumin on the pharm…

Bello Balaraba, Wudil A. Muhammad

pp. 22–25 · DOI: 10.5530/pc.2012.3.5 · 2012

Background:Moringa oleifera has been reported to have a lot of therapeutic potential such as antidiabetic, hypocholesterolemic and hypotensive. Objective:This work was undertaken to study the effects of pretreatment and …

Suriyavathana Muthukrishnan, Rajan Thinakaran

pp. 26–29 · DOI: 10.5530/pc.2012.3.6 · 2012

This study was carried out to analyze the active constituents from Pseudarthria viscida roots using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry. The chemical composition of the methanolic extract of Pseudarthria viscida was inv…

Alok Pal Jain, Rajesh Singh Pawara, Santram Lodhi, Abhay K. Singhai

pp. 30–37 · DOI: 10.5530/pc.2012.3.7 · 2012

Introduction:The plant Alpinia galanga Linn.(Zingiberaceae) is widely distributed in India. It is a perennial, aromatic and rhizomatous herb which is traditionally used as a carminative, stomachic, disinfectant, aphrodis…

Kaniz Fatima Urmi, Afroza Haque, Kaiser Hamid, M Obayed Ullah, Md. Amran Howlader, Md. Afjal Hossain

pp. 38–41 · DOI: 10.5530/pc.2012.3.8 · 2012

Introduction:The incidence of diabetes mellitus is on rise all over the world. Moreover the synthetic drugs are likely to give serious side effects. That is why the expert committee on diabetes at WHO recommends the scre…

Machhindra C. Garad, Manoj A. Upadhya, Dadasaheb M. Kokare, Prakash R. Itankar

pp. 42–45 · DOI: 10.5530/pc.2012.3.9 · 2012

Introduction:Enicostemma littorale Blume (Gentianaceae) is traditionally used as medicine for the treatment of diabetes, fever, rheumatism, stomachache, dyspepsia, hernia, itching, insect poisoning and malaria. In the pr…

O.O. Koyro, O.V. Tovchiga, S. I. Stepanova, S. Yu. Shtrygol

pp. 46–49 · DOI: 10.5530/pc.2012.3.10 · 2012

The composition of the goutweed flower essential oil from Kharkiv region (Ukraine) was studied using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Sesquiterpenes have been found to be the main group of the essential oil. The pri…

I.E. Cock

pp. 50–57 · DOI: 10.5530/pc.2012.3.11 · 2012

Introduction:Australian Callistemon species had a role as traditional bush medicine for Australian Aborigines, including use as an antiseptic agent. Despite this ethnobotanical usage, the antimicrobial properties of Call…

Disha Arora, Anupam Sharma

pp. 58–61 · DOI: 10.5530/pc.2012.3.12 · 2012

Background:Stellaria media Linn. (Caryophyllaceae) has been traditionally used for a variety of ailments such as inflammation, blood diseases, eczema and nerve diseases. The present study was designed to evaluate the anx…

Namrata Kadwadkar, Savita Kulkarni

pp. 62–66 · DOI: 10.5530/pc.2012.3.13 · 2012

Lectins are simply defined as glycoproteins which specifically bind to carbohydrates. Lectins were isolated from Canavalia ensiformis, Phaseolus vulgaris and Ricinus communis using the standard protein precipitation meth…

Mohammad Nur Alam, Suvashish Roy, Sharif Mohammad Anisuzzaman, Mohammed Rafiquzzaman

pp. 67–71 · DOI: 10.5530/pc.2012.3.14 · 2012

Background: Solanum nigrum Linn. (Solanaceae) has been extensively used in traditional medicine in Bangladesh and other parts of the world to cure liver disorders, chronic skin ailments (psoriasis and ringworm), inflamma…

I.E. Cock

pp. 73–74 · DOI: 10.5530/pc.2012.3.16 · 2012

A recent study in the journal Hepatology[1] has demonstrated the chemopreventative effect of Crocus sativus (saffron) in decreasing hepatocellular cancer (HCC) induced by diethylnitrosamine (DEN) in laboratory rats. This…