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Medicinal plants

About: Medicinal plants is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 3816 publications have been published within this topic receiving 108681 citations. The topic is also known as: medicinal herbs & medicinal plants.


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TL;DR: The medicinal plants used by the people of Assam for curing different skin ailments and for cosmetics ranges from the enhancement of skin colour, hair care, removal of ugly spots, colouring of nails, palms, and teeth, but many of the plant preparations used for enhancing beauty were also applied for therapeutic use.

236 citations

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TL;DR: The aim of the present review is to understand the knowledge of the medicinal plants as a future source of herbal drugs in India.
Abstract: India has a long history and strong base for Ayurveda, which is the traditional herbal medical system. Herbal plants play an important role in preventing and treating of human diseases. People have been using plants as a traditional medicine for thousand years ago. Plants have been associated with the development of human civilization around the whole world. However, plants are considered as rich sources of phytochemical ingredients which enable to have medicinal value. Medicinal plants are a potential source for the development of new herbal drugs. In the 21st century, the pharmacological effects of medicinal plants have been considered as a promising future drug/medicine for the management of health care. In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest to rediscover medicinal plants as a source of potential drug candidate. Therefore, the aim of the present review is to understand the knowledge of the medicinal plants as a future source of herbal drugs.

235 citations

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TL;DR: Polyphenols from four medicinal plants of Burkina Faso, Combretum micranthum, Khaya senegalensis, Pterocarpus erinaceus and Sida acuta were screened for their antioxidant and antimicrobial activities against pathogenic bacteria and suggested to be potential sources of phenolic antioxidants.
Abstract: Polyphenols from four medicinal plants of Burkina Faso, Combretum micranthum, Khaya senegalensis, Pterocarpus erinaceus and Sida acuta , were screened for their antioxidant and antimicrobial activities against pathogenic bacteria. The medicinal plants displayed different polyphenols contents and antioxidant activities. The bark of P. erinaceus had the highest antioxidant activity. Some microorganisms were susceptible to polyphenol extracts with minimal bactericidal concentration values between 20 and 2000 mg/ml while other microorganisms appeared to be resistant to the extracts. Microbicide and microbiostatic activities of the extracts were dependent on the type of strains. Results suggest that these plants are not only interesting sources for antimicrobial activities but also potential sources of phenolic antioxidants. Key words : Antioxidants, polyphenols, antimicrobials, medicinal plants. African Journal of Biotechnology Vol. 4 (8), pp. 823-828

233 citations

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TL;DR: The antimicrobial activity of crude ethanolic extracts of 16 Siberian medicinal plants was tested against five species of microorganisms: Bacillus cereus, Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Candida albicans.

231 citations

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TL;DR: A review of Mexican medicinal flora in terms of ethnobotanical, pharmacology, and chemistry of natural products related to anticancer activity indicates that it is time to increase the number of experimental studies and to conduct clinical trials with those Mexican plants and its active compounds selected by in vitro and in vivo activities.

228 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023617
20221,438
2021239
2020262
2019227
2018252