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The aim of the present study is to evaluate the anti anemic activity of ethanolic leaf extract of Corchorus fascicularis against phenylhydrazine-induced hemolytic anemia in rats. Phenylhydrazine (40mg/kg) was administered intraperitoneally for 2 days to induce anemia in rats. The animals were divided into five groups of 6 animals each. Group I served as normal control, group II as anemic control, group III as reference control administered with vitamin B12 and group IV and V animals were treated with 100 mg/kg and 200mg/kg of ethanolic leaf extract of Corchorus fascicularis Linn. (CFE). All the test drugs were administered once daily for 28 days through the oral route. On 1st, 14th and 28th-day blood were withdrawn, through sinus puncture under phenobarbitone anesthesia and subjected to the estimation of RBC, Hb and percentage Hematocrit. Both the ethanolic leaf extracts of Corchorus fascicularis Linn. and vitamin B12 significantly increased the RBC, Hb and Hematocrit levels which conclude that Corchorus fascicularis Linn. leaf extract exhibits anti-anemic...
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Aqueous and ethanol-ethyl acetate chloroform-methanol extracts from the leaves of Ricinus communis were investigated for their anthelmintic activity against Pheretima posthuma, and three concentrations (50, 75 and 100 mg/ml) of each extract were studied for activity, in which paralysis and death time of the worm. Both the extract exhibited remarkable anthelminthic activity at all three concentrations. Albendazole suspension is used as standard reference (20 mg/ml) and distilled water as a control. Therefore the aqueous and ethanol methanol extract of leaves of Ricinus communis has been demonstrated for the...
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The medicinal plants are useful for healing, as well as, for curing of human diseases because of the presence of phytochemical constituents. Phytochemicals are naturally occurring in the medicinal plants, leaves, vegetables, and roots that have defense mechanism and protect from various diseases. The leaves of Solanum are used to treat mouth ulcers that happen during winter periods in Tamil Nadu. Leaves of Leucas are considered useful in chronic rheumatism, psoriasis, and other skin eruptions. The preliminary phytochemical screening showed the presence of almost all the phytoconstituents in the different solvent extracts used. Protein and carbohydrate were found to be absent only in chloroform, petroleum ether, and benzene extracts. The presence of various other phytoconstituents such as alkaloids, flavonoids, steroids, terpenoids, quinone, phenols, starch, cellulose, oil, and fat shows the therapeutic use of the plants both S. nigrum as well as L. aspera for accelerating the wound healing process....
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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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