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The present study was designed to judge the in vitro anthelmintic activity of sap of Azadirachta indica. The duct roundworm, Pheretima posthuma, has been reported to cause severe health issues in immeasurable folks round the world. Records prove that a lot of the liquid extracts obtained from varied elements of various seasonal plants exhibited significant anthelmintic activity against Pheretima posthuma. This gave us a lead to a found new compound resulting in the anthelmintic activity on sap of Azadirachta indica. The vermicidal activity was studied in four completely different volumes (5, 10, 20, 40 ml) and dilutions (5/10, 10/10, 15/10, 20/0) milliliter was prepared. The dilutions were evaluated for the time of palsy and time of the death of the worm. The sap of Azadirachta indica exhibited important anthelmintic activity. At the highest concentration of 40 milliliters and dilution’s 20/0 milliliter exhibits wonderful anthelmintic activity was reported as compared to the standard drug, Albendazole. The sap of Azadirachta indica in vitro studies indicated that sap of Azadirachta indica possesses...
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The wound healing activity of leaves of Ficus racemosa Linn. alcoholic, chloroform and ethyl acetate extract ointments were evaluated on Wistar rats by excision wound model for 12 days and incision wound model for 10 days. In incision model the parameter carried out was tensile strength of wounded skin. In excision model percentage wound contractions were determined for all the groups. Reference standard drug was curcumin ointment. Animals treated with extracts of Ficus racemosa Linn. showed a marked reduction in wound area in comparison to the control group from 4th day onwards. From the observations, it is found that in both the models, an alcoholic extract of Ficus racemosa and enriched diet had greater wound healing activity in terms of tensile strength in incision model and percentage wound closure, in excision model than that of other groups. Enriched diet also showed good wound healing activity which may be due to high protein content and fatty acids present in the...
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Caryota urens (Palmae) is native to India. This tree species has been of interest to researchers because it is a medicinal plant employed in the indigenous Indian system of medicine. Pharmacognostic standardization, physic-chemical evaluation of the leaves of Caryota urens was carried out to determine its macro-and microscopical characters and also some insoluble ash and sulfated ash values, alcohol- and water-soluble extractive values were determined for phytochemical evaluations. Preliminary phytochemical screening was also done to detect different phytoconstituents. Microscopically, leaf showed lamina, midrib regions, stomata. Powder microscopy showed mesophyll region, pitted xylem vessels and paracytic stomata. TLC of petroleum ether and ethanol extract showed three spots using hexane: ethyl acetate (12:4) and three spots using chloroform: ethyl acetate (5:4). Phytochemically leaves exhibited phytosterols, flavanoids, tannin carbohydrates, and phenolic...
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This study was conducted to determine the in-vitro anti-microbial activity of Acacia etbaica, native plant to east African countries, against Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli. To achieve this, the methanol extract of leaf of Acacia etbaica was tested for its in-vitro antibacterial activity against Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli using agar disc diffusion method at two different concentrations (500 µg/disc and 1000 µg/disc). The minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of the plant crude extract was also determined using the microdilution method in 96-well plates. Acacia etbaica showed significant antibacterial activity with the mean zone of inhibition of 13.34 ± 1.04 mm and 11.13 ± 1.04 mm in diameter at a concentration of 1000µg of plant extract per disc against S. aureus and E. coli respectively. The MIC of the crude extracts of Acacia etbaica was determined to be 0.039 mg/ml and 0.313 mg/ml against S. aureus and E. coli respectively. The results suggest that the methanol extract of Acacia etbaica could be a rich source of antibacterial compounds. The results...
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Several plants used for medicinal purposes can be found in the Brazilian Cerrado, among which highlights the genus Cecropia used as a bronchodilator, antitussive, anti-diabetic, anti-diarrheal, anti-hypertensive, anti-inflammatory and vasorelaxant. Between species, there is Cecropia pachystachya belongs to the Urticaceae family. This study aims to evaluate the phytochemical screening, antioxidant capacity and antimicrobial susceptibility of ethanol, aqueous and hydroalcoholic extracts the leaves of C. pachystachya extracts. In analyzing, the phytochemical screening was used for prospecting technique chemical constituents of plant extracts to detect the presence of alkaloids, anthraquinones, steroids/triterpenoids, flavonoids, glycosides, tannins, and saponins. The method of inhibiting free radical 2, 2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH•) was employed for the evaluation of the antioxidant capacity of the extracts and the antimicrobial susceptibility wells technique in Mueller-Hinton agar. The ethanol extract showed better antioxidant activity compared to the control with 0.56 µL/mL of IC50, but also in antimicrobial susceptibility with inhibitory effect in different concentrations. We can conclude that the extract which showed a high performance against the trials was the ethanol. However,...
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