August 2015

Assessment of Indian medicinal plants for the treatment of asthma

The present study documented the traditional knowledge of medicinal plants which are used for the treatment of respiratory diseases asthma in India by various tribal communities. The present study is based on the literature survey from various sources and it provides a comprehensive knowledge about the use of plants and their parts for the treatment of asthma by various tribal communities in India. Ethno-medicinal uses...

Author(s): Kuldip S. Dogra, Sandeep Chauhan and Jeewan S. Jalal

August 2015

Effect of biofarming techniques on medicinal glori lily (Gloriosa superba L.) and soil fertility status

Field experiment was conducted at the farmer’s field at Devanur village of Ariyalur District, Tamil nadu during 2007 to 2008 to study the effect of biofarming techniques on the yield and soil fertility performance of glori lily (Gloriosa superba L.). The treatments consisted of different organic manures viz.,  T1-control, T2-Farm Yard Manure (FYM) at 12.5 t ha-1, T3- Enriched Farm Yard Manure (EFYM) at 750 kg...

Author(s): S. Deivasigamani, K.Thanunathan, R. M. Kathiresan, M. Sudhakar and B. Bharathi Karthikeyan

August 2015

Evaluation of the effect of crude extract of Datura innoxia on the cardiovascular action of detomidine in rabbits

Datura innoxia indigenous shrub in South Asia region belongs to the family Solanaceae which contains medicinal important alkaloids (hyoscine, atropine, hycosamine, etc). Thirty adult rabbits of mixed breed, male and female were pretreated with 0.1 mg/500 mg of crude extract (1% of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) solution) and injected 5 min later with 0.01 mg/500 mg of detomidine (group A, n=15) or Saline (group B, n=15)....

Author(s): S. U. Rehman, H. M. Rafique, F. A. Qureshi and S. Shahid

August 2015

Ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants used by the community of Sobradinho, Luís Correia, Piauí, Brazil

An ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants used by the Sobradinho community, Luís Correia, Piauí, Brazil was undertaken to recover and document traditional knowledge with the aim of supporting chemical, biological, agronomic, pharmaceutical and socio-economic studies related to the region's biodiversity. Fifteen research visits to the community were made between March 2013 to January 2014 involving...

Author(s): Silva J. D. A., Nascimento M. G. P., Grazina L. G., Castro K. N. C., Mayo S. J. and Andrade I. M.