Volume 2, Issue 5

Mbang A. Owolabi, Moyosola M. Abass, Promise M. Emeka, Smith I. Jaja, Martin Nnoli, Benjamin O. S. Dosa

pp. 273–284 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.72322 · 2010

Background In recent times, many herbal remedies are used to treat variety of ailments. the leaves of Vitex grandifolia is claimed to be effective in the treatment of diabetes mellitus and as a diuretic in the treatment …

L. S. R. Arambewela, L. D. A. M. Arawwawala

pp. 285–288 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.72324 · 2010

Background Rhizomes of Alpinia calcarata Roscoe (Family: Zingiberaceae) possess several bioactivities and are used in the traditional medicinal systems of Sri Lanka. Methods the present investigation was carried out to s…

Sunil K. Mishra, A. Kumar, A. Talukdar

pp. 289–292 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.72325 · 2010

Background litsea glitinosa is an evergreen tree of medium size which grows to a height of about 20 to 30 feet. It belongs to family Lauraceae. In India it is found mainly in North Eastern region. The leaves and the muci…

A. Vieira

pp. 293–295 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.72326 · 2010

Background In relation to pharmacognosy, an objective of many ethnobotanical studies is to identify plant species to be further investigated, for example, tested in disease models related to the ethnomedicinal applicatio…

A. V. Kulkarni, A. A. Patwardhan, U. Lele, N. P. Malpathak

pp. 296–299 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.72327 · 2010

Background Chonemorpha grandiflora (Syn. Chonemorpha fragrans (apocynaceae) is an endangered medicinal plant. It is used in different preparations, such as sudarsanasavam and kumaryasavam used in Kerala Ayurvedic system.…

Ashlesh V. Murkute, Mahesh S. Sahu, Prashant Y. Mali, Vinod D. Rangari

pp. 300–303 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.72328 · 2010

Background Extensive researches are going on to explore the effective and safe drug for their hair growth. Tobacco leaves are traditionally known to potentiate hair growth promotion. Therefore, the aim of present study w…

H. N. Aswatha Ram, Prachiti Lachake, Ujjwal Kaushik, C. S. Shreedhara

pp. 304–308 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.72329 · 2010

Background Floating tablets prolong the gastric residence time of drugs, improve bioavailability, and facilitate local drug delivery to the stomach. With this objective, floating tablets containing aqueous extract of liq…

Ashok Kumar Pandey, Swati Yadav

pp. 309–312 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.72330 · 2010

Background Madhunashini (Gymnema sylvestre R. Br.) commonly known as ‘Gudmar’ in Hindi is an important medicinal climber and extensively used in almost all Indian System of Medicine as a remedy for diabetes, rheumatism, …

Sarmistha Dutta, Swarnamoni Das

pp. 313–317 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.72331 · 2010

Introduction The aim is to study the anti-inflammatory effect of the ethanolic extract of the leaves of Psidium guajava (PGE) on experimental animal models. Materials and Methods Fresh leaves were collected, air-dried, p…

Ajazuddin, Shailendra Saraf

pp. 318–322 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.72332 · 2010

Background Although the formulations of the Unani system of medicine are popular, not much scientific work has been reported so far. The present article is an attempt to establish the scientific basis of one of the popul…

A. B. D. Selvam

pp. 323–324 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.72333 · 2010

Since each and every drug plant has its own characteristic features, in terms of its botanical characters, chemical composition and therapeutic properties, considering the highly potential drug plants as genuine plant an…