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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: People of the study area are extensively using the ethnomedicinal plants to cure various ailments and plants with high use value and fidelity level should be subjected to pharmacological investigation for scientific validation.

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17 Jan 2017
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of aluminum sulfate, ferrous sulfate and stannous chloride mordants on colorimetric and fastness properties of wool fibers was investigated.
Abstract: In this study, wool fibers are dyed with a natural colorant extracted from walnut bark in presence and absence of mordants. The effect of aluminum sulfate, ferrous sulfate, and stannous chloride mordants on colorimetric and fastness properties of wool fibers was investigated. Juglone was identified as the main coloring component in walnut bark extract by UV visible and FTIR spectroscopic techniques. The results showed that pretreatment with metallic mordants substantially improved the colorimetric and fastness properties of wool fibers dyed with walnut bark extract. Ferrous sulfate and stannous chloride mordanted wool fibers shows best results than potassium aluminum sulfate mordanted and unmordanted wool fibers. This is ascribed due to strong chelating power of ferrous sulfate and stannous chloride mordants.

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  • ...1 acts as a substantive dye and imparts brown color to textile substrates (Chopra et al. 1996; Mirjalili et al. 2011; Mirjalili and Karimi 2013)....

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TL;DR: Results confirm the very reliable method for short-term conservation and large-scale production of true-to-type plantlets of L. revoluta, which can be applied in pharmaceutical industries.
Abstract: Scaly bulb of Ledebouria revoluta is a natural source of several cardiac glycosides and is traditionally used in Indian and South African ethno-medicinal system from ancient age. High-frequency indirect somatic embryogenesis protocol via callus culture had been developed from bulb scale explant. Optimum embryogenic calli was induced on Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium supplemented with 3.0 mg l−1 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid and 0.75 mg l−1 β-naphthoxyacetic acid. A maximum of 93.3 % of the cultures responded after 6 weeks of culture on MS medium containing 3.0 mg l−1 of thidiazuron, 0.75 mg l−1 α-naphthalene acetic acid and 1.75 mM spermidine forming 46.7 ± 0.58 somatic embryos per 500 mg callus. Individual somatic embryo was encapsulated in calcium alginate beads to produce artificial seeds (ASs). The ASs were stored at 4, 15, and 24 °C temperatures up to 180 days. The ASs showed 57.8 % germinability even after 4 months of storage at 15 °C. Plantlets were acclimatized with a survival rate of 96.0 % and after 13–14 months, 92.4 % of these plants produced flowers. Chromosomal studies revealed cytological stability of the regenerants containing 2n = 30 chromosomes in root tips and n = 15 chromosomes in pollen grains, same as parental plants. The meiotic behaviour of the regenerants is also similar to that of parental plants. Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analysis revealed that there is no somaclonal variations among the plants produced via somatic embryogenesis and they are true-to-type to their parental plant. These results confirm the very reliable method for short-term conservation and large-scale production of true-to-type plantlets of L. revoluta, which can be applied in pharmaceutical industries.

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  • ...A bulbaceous herb Ledebouria revoluta (L.f.) Jessop [Syn: Scilla indica (Wight) Baker] of the family Asparagaceae (The Plant List 2013) is traditionally used in the ethnomedicinal system of India and South Africa (Chopra et al. 1956; Mulholland et al. 2013; Muleya et al. 2014)....

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  • ...source of several cardiac glycosides and is traditionally used in Indian and South African ethno-medicinal system from ancient age....

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  • ...Scaly bulbs of this species have antioxidant and antimicrobial properties and are medicinally used in the Indian Ayurveda system as a cardiac stimulant, anthelmentic, antiasthmatic, digestive, expectorant, anti-inflammatory and diuretic (Chopra et al. 1956; Rao and Rangaswami 1967; Tripathi et al. 2001)....

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  • ...(The Plant List 2013) is traditionally used in the ethnomedicinal system of India and South Africa (Chopra et al. 1956; Mulholland et al. 2013; Muleya et al. 2014)....

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  • ...A strong antioxidant and antibacterial activity of this bulbaceous herb was also reported from South Africa (Muleya et al. 2014)....

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TL;DR: The effects of PEPM make this natural herb ideal as an aphrodisiac and a potent fertility enhancing drug.
Abstract: It has been suggested that chronic ethanol exposure may result in testicular damage and infertility in males. Petroleum ether extract of Pedalium murex, family Pedaliaceae (PEPM), is evaluated in this study for its ability to increase aphrodisiac activity and to cure ethanol induced germ cell damage and infertility in male rat models. Doses of 200 and 400 mg/kg of PEPM showed a significant increase (P < 0.01, P < 0.001) in mating and mounting behaviour. The effect on fertility factors such as total body weight, percentage of pregnancy, litter size were also significantly increased (P < 0.01) in comparison with the ethanol-treated group. Significant increases in sperm motility and count were observed in PEPM-treated groups in a dose-dependent manner (P < 0.01; P < 0.001) as compared with the ethanol-treated group. Similarly, reductions in the percentage of abnormal sperm were noted in animals treated with PEPM 400 mg/kg. The effects of PEPM on total protein, total cholesterol and testosterone were satisfactory, the levels being increased significantly for protein (P < 0.05), cholesterol (P < 0.01) and testosterone (P < 0.05) by 400 mg/kg PEPM. Microtome sections of the testes of animals treated with 400 mg/kg PEPM exhibited restoration and recovery of germinal cells and the luminal spermatozoa and were comparable with the control group animals. These effects of PEPM make this natural herb ideal as an aphrodisiac and a potent fertility enhancing drug.

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01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: In this paper, the active parts of 11 medicinal plants were analyzed for physico-chemical evaluation, phytochemical determination and antioxidant activity, and the total ash content evaluation indicated that Achillea millefolium yielded (20.2 %) and Rauvolfia serpentina yielded (41.6%); these values are much higher than the standard ash values for these drugs are highly adulterated and substandard.
Abstract: The active parts of 11 medicinal plants were analyzed for physico-chemical evaluation, phytochemical determination and antioxidant activity. The physico-chemical evaluation revealed that highest water soluble extractive was from Origanum vulgare (38%), highest chloroform extractive was from Psoralea corylifolia (21%); highest ethanolic extractive was that of Acorus calamus (11%) and the highest hexane extractive value was for Arnebia nobilis (9.8%). The total ash content evaluation indicated that Achillea millefolium yielded (20.2 %) and Rauvolfia serpentina yielded (41.6%); these values are much higher than the standard ash values for these plants indicating that these drugs are highly adulterated and substandard. The highest essential oil was yielded by Acorus calamus (3.2%). The highest saponin percentage was analyzed in Acorus calamus (8.9%), while the alkaloids percentage was determined at 21% in Peganum harmala. Among all the plants assessed for DPPH free radical scavenging activity, the maximum activity was shown by Paeonia emodi (85.8%), followed by Achillea millefolium (81.7%) and Origanum vulgare (80.3%).

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  • ...The tubers of Paeonia emodi are useful for uterine diseases, colic, bilious obstructions, dropsy, epilepsy, convulsions and hysteria, and are also given to children as a blood purifier (Chopra et al., 1956)....

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  • ...The leaves of Gymnema sylvestre are used in diabetes and are chewed to reduce glycosuria (Chopra et al., 1956)....

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