Journal of Natural Product and Plant Resources 

About: Journal of Natural Product and Plant Resources is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Phytochemical & Essential oil. It has an ISSN identifier of 2231-3184. Over the lifetime, 348 publications have been published receiving 3361 citations.

Plants as a source of anticancer agents

Abstract: An attempt has been made to review some medicinal plants used for the prevention and treatment of cancer. Plant derived compounds have played an important role in the development of several clinically useful anticancer agents. Several anticancer agents including taxol, vinblastine, vincristine and topotecan are in clinical use all over the world. A number of promising agents such as combrestatin, betulinic acid and silvesterol are in clinical or preclinical development.

Achyranthes aspera-An important medicinal plant: A review

Abstract: Achyranthes aspera (Amaranthaceae) is an important medicinal herb found as a weed throughout India. Though almost all of its parts are used in traditional systems of medicines, seeds, roots and shoots are the most important parts which are used medicinally. The present article gives an account of updated information on its phytochemical and pharmacological properties. The review reveals that wide numbers of phytochemical constituents have been isolated from the plant which possesses activities like antiperiodic, diuretic, purgative, laxative, antiasthmatic, hepatoprotective, anti-allergic and various other important medicinal properties. The crushed plant is used in pneumonia and infusion of the root is used as mild astringent in bowel complaints. Decoction of powdered leaves with honey or sugar candy is useful in early stages of diarrhoea and dysentery. For the last few decades or so, extensive research work has been done to prove its biological activities and pharmacology of its extracts. Saponins, oleonolic acid, dihydroxy ketones, alkaloids, long chain compounds and many other chemical constituents have been isolated.

Phytochemical screening and identification of some compounds from mallow

Abstract: The triphytochemical screening of three extracts (etheric, ethanolic and aqueous) of Malva sylvestris L. revealed that the seed contain alkaloids, sterols and steroids, reducing sugars, tannins, emodols, starch, coumarins and the stem contain flavonoids, tannins, starch, saponins, alkaloids, emodols, sterols and steroids, reducing compounds, coumarins and anthocyanosids which give the medicines several healing properties. The separation of the bioactive compounds from the two parts of the plant extracts was carried out using thin layer chromatography (TLC). However; the aqueous acetone extract of the seed and the stem identified the phenolic compounds such as phenolic acids.

Plant based natural dyes and mordnats: A Review

Abstract: Natural dyes, which were pushed during the last sixty years into the background by synthetic dyes, are recently again becoming object of consumer interests. This is due to the awareness of possible risks during production of synthetic dyes which involve use of petrochemical based raw materials and the violent chemical reactions for their synthesis. The manufacture of such dyes is energy intensive with adverse impact on environment adding to its pollution. Many of these dyes, especially the azo- based ones, are found to be carcinogenic. In this background, a brief review of natural colourant from plant sources, their classification, chemical constituents responsible for producing different colours, its activities and effect of different mordants on the hue is discussed. Different classes of mordants employed for fixation of natural colouration on textiles substrated, its mechanism and plant sources are also discussed.

Luffa cylindrica: an important medicinal plant

Abstract: Traditional system of medicine consists of large number of plant with various medicinal and pharmacological importances and hence represents a priceless tank of new bioactive molecules. Luffa cylindrica found all over the world. It is commonly known as ‘tori’ and has been recognized in different traditional system of medicines for the treatment of varied diseases of human being. The phytoconstituents present in it mainly belong to the category of flavonoids. Different part of this plant are traditionally claimed to be used for the treatment of broad spectrum of ailment including snake bites, convulsions, cramps, tetanus, emetic, cathartic, dropsy, nephritis, chronic bronchitis, asthma, sinusitis and fever to be list a few.