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Oleo-gum resin of Boswellia serrata Roxb. is described in Unani medicine in the name of Kundur. It is commonly known as luban which belongs to the family Burseraceae. Boswellia, or frankincense, harkens back to ancient India and Egypt. Frankincense was one of the four components in the medicinal “Balsam of Jerusalem” from the Franciscan Monastery and, as noted in the Papyrus Ebers, Circa 1500 BC, had applications in Egypt for mummification, cremation, and the treatment of skin wounds. The gum is popularly used in Unani Medicine for the last numerous centuries in curing various ailments, especially osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, wound healing, hemorrhoids, dysentery, dyspepsia, lung diseases, skin disease bronchitis, asthma, cough, cardiovascular diseases mouth sores, vaginal discharges, etc. Kundur is an ingredient in some Unani formulations viz: Majoon Kundur, Majoon Murawwah-ul-Arwah, Majuoon Masikul Baul, etc. for the treatment of amraze kulliya (renal disorders). Many clinical studies have done on anti-cancer activity, anti-asthmatic activity, anti-arthritic activity, crohn’s disease, cerebral edema, osteoarthrosis, and ulcerative colitis, etc. This review reveals that the...
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The present study was based on diabetes, its cure & herbal products available in the market. Diabetes mellitus is the most common endocrine disorder, affecting 16 million individuals in the United States and 200 million worldwide. Despite the use of advanced synthetic drugs for the treatment, use of herbal remedies is gaining higher importance because of synthetic drugs have drawbacks and limitations. The herbal drugs with anti-diabetic activity are extensively formulated commercially because of easy availability, affordability and fewer side effects as compared to synthetic anti-diabetic drugs. Anti-diabetic herbal formulations (AHF) are considered to be more effective for the management of diabetes. There are around 600 herbal drug manufacturers in India of which almost all manufacturers are developing AHF in addition to others. Till date, no article is published to give detailed information about the herbal preparations on diabetes available in the market. In this, we illustrate about diabetes mellitus and its types, causes, sign, and symptoms, complications, pathophysiology, diabetic medication, diabetic treatment, herbal diabetic cure, advantages of herbal...
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Chenopodium album L. (family Chenopodiaceae), a noxious weed globally distributed that is a large genus commonly known as white goosefoot and fat-hen, melde, pigweed, lamb’s quarters, lambsquarters or local names. It has nutritious value and more than thirteen compounds accounted and subsistence food crop; seed are processed into flour for pancakes and bread. It is boiled and mixed with other ingredients to make a kind of gruel, or is roasted and ground for porridge or also used for preparing fermented and alcoholic beverages. Medicinally it is used to cure the diseases of blood, heart, spleen, and eye and in biliousness conditions, anti-cancer property, antipruritic and antinociceptive activities. The plant traditionally used as a laxative, anthelmintic, blood-purifier, antiscorbutic, appetizer, aphrodisiac and tonic. It is nutraceutical food, an alternative source for nutrients. The plant contains essential oils, besides alkaloids, trigonelline, chenopodine, potassium and vitamin C, total phenol flavonoid glycosides (quercetin, rutin, and kaempferol). The major class of phytoconstituents includes nonpolar lipid, phenols, and lignins, alkaloids, flavonoids, glycosides and...
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Amino acids are biologically active substances, and a number of them are essential for living beings. Amino acids are found in living cells as well as in body fluids of higher animals, in amounts, which vary according to the tissue and particular amino acid. Amino acid analysis refers to the methodology used to determine the amino acid composition or content of proteins, peptides, and other pharmaceutical preparations. Proteins and peptides are macromolecules consisting of covalently bonded amino acid residues organized as a linear polymer. The sequence of the amino acids in a protein or peptide determines the properties of the molecule. Proteins are considered large molecules that commonly exist as folded structures with a specific conformation, while peptides are smaller and may consist of only a few amino acids. Amino acid analysis can be used to quantify protein and peptides, to determine the identity of proteins or peptides based on their amino acid composition, to support protein and peptide structure analysis, to evaluate fragmentation strategies for peptide mapping, and...
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Dementia is a progressive neurological disease of the brain. It demolishes the vital brain cells, causing trouble with memory, thinking, and behavior, brutal enough to affect work, lifelong hobbies, and social life. Recognized factors in dementia include acetylcholine deficiency, free radicals, and inflammation of the brain tissue. Since, the drugs and natural remedies have been prescribed to enhance the memory and protect the memory functioning in dementia people. The traditional herbal medicine, numerous plants have been used to treat age-related cognitive disorders. The use of herbs to treat ailments would later form a large part of Ayurveda. In the first millennium BCE, there emerges in post-Vedic India the traditional medicine system known as Ayurveda, meaning the “complete knowledge for long life”. According to the compendium of Charaka, the Charakasamhita health and disease are not predetermined and life may be prolonged by human effort. The compendium of Suśruta, they defines the purpose of medicine to cure the diseases of the sick, protect the healthy, and to prolong life. Most remarkable...
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