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Glossary of Indian Medicinal Plants

About: The article was published on 1956-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 5524 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Glossary.
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TL;DR: 45 plants and their products that have been mentioned/used in the Indian traditional system of medicine and have shown experimental or clinical anti-diabetic activity are reviewed.

1,641 citations

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TL;DR: Qualitative phytochemical tests, thin layer chromatography and TLC-bioautography of certain active extracts demonstrated the presence of common phytocompounds in the plant extracts including phenols, tannins and flavonoids as major active constituents.

1,247 citations


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  • ...Traditionally used medicinal plants produce a variety of compounds of known therapeutic properties (Iyengar, 1985; Chopra et al., 1992; Harborne and Baxter, 1995)....

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  • ...The selection of medicinal plants is based on their traditional uses (32 plants) in India and our reported antimicrobial activity of 13 plants (Chopra et al., 1992; Ahmad et al., 1998; Mehmood et al., 1999)....

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  • ...Our phytochemical analyses are in agreement with the reports of other workers (Iyengar, 1985; Chopra et al., 1992; Bruneton, 1995; Harborne and Baxter, 1995; Cai and Wu, 1996)....

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01 Jan 1981

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TL;DR: Among various extracts, only alcoholic extracts of Emblica officinalis, terminalia chebula, Terminalia belerica, Plumbago zeylanica and Holarrhena antidysenterica were found to show potentially interesting activity against test bacteria.

1,040 citations