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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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Extracts from leaves, stems and flower buds of Myrciaria glazioviana were analyzed for their antioxidant and anticholinesterase activity. The methanolic extracts showed the best results in reducing power (623.52 – 806.15 mg AA/g of extract), DPPH radical scavenging (IC50 = 9.77 – 14.06µg/mL) and lipid peroxidation inhibition activity (21.30 – 66.80 %). These data were correlated to the total phenolic content (270.19 – 351.01 mg GA/g of extract). The dichloromethane extract of leaves exhibited a higher anticholinesterase potential (IC50=249.25 µg/mL). Furthermore, the chemical composition of the essential oils from leaves collected in all seasons of the year was analyzed by GC-MS and GC-FID. Only sesquiterpenes were identified in all essential oils, and non-functionalized sesquiterpenes comprised the major fractions (from 66.8 to 79.3 %). An increase in non-functionalized compounds was observed in the warmer seasons. Germacrene B was the major compound in all seasons (from 26.8 to 30.1 %). In winter and autumn, high contents of germacrene D (10.2 and 10.0 %, respectively) and α-cadinol (12.1 and 12.0 %, respectively)...
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People, who have visits to high altitudes, do experience a certain type of health problems as they transit to different altitude ranges. With ascend to high altitude, various kinds of acute and chronic physiological changes occur which influence all system of the human body. These problems although have temporary manifestations, arising due to maladjustment of the body to abrupt altitudinal changes in oxygen, atmospheric pressure, and gravity but sometimes can be life-threatening. Often it has been found that these symptoms are confused with other complications of the body. Present review mention different type of altitude health problems, their symptoms, herbal and synthetic drugs that is helpful in these...
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