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Pharmacognosy Reviews

Volume 3, Issue 6

2009 · pp. 216–387 · 18 articles

Volume
3
Issue
6
Year
2009
Published
29 Jul 2009
Pages
216–387
Articles
18
Sections
1
ISSN
Print - 0973-7847, Online - 0976-2787
Journal
Phcog Rev.

In this issue

Review Article

  1. Review ArticlePublished: 29 Jul 2009

    Jayvant Kurane, Vaibhav Shinde, Abhay Harsulkar

    pp. 216-228Vol. 3, Issue 6 (2009)

    ISSR (Inter Simple Sequence Repeat) is one of the popular techniques of DNA fingerprinting because of several reasons. In many fields, ISSR markers have proved their utility. There are many applications of ISSR in variou…

  2. Review ArticlePublished: 29 Jul 2009

    Rahul Chulet, Pankaj Pradhan

    pp. 229-234Vol. 3, Issue 6 (2009)

    Rasayana is one of the eight clinical specialities of classical Ayurveda. Rasayana replenish the vital fluids of our body, thus keeping us away from diseases. The rasayana therapy enhance the qualities of rasa, enriches …

  3. Review ArticlePublished: 29 Jul 2009

    Neha Mittal, Alok Kumar Dubey

    pp. 235-246Vol. 3, Issue 6 (2009)

    Microsatellites are randomly interspersed within eukaryotic genomes. These are also known as SSRs (Simple sequence repeats), STRs (Short tandem repeats), STMs (Sequence tagged microsatellites), and VNTRs (Variable number…

  4. Review ArticlePublished: 29 Jul 2009

    Ranjeeta Prasad, Rahul Dev Lawania, Manvi M, Rajiv Gupta

    pp. 247-258Vol. 3, Issue 6 (2009)

    Herbs have been the highly esteemed source of medicine throughout human history. They are widely used today indicating that herbs are a growing part of modern, high-tech medicine. About 25-30 percent of today's prescript…

  5. Review ArticlePublished: 29 Jul 2009

    Govind Pandey, Madhuri S

    pp. 259-263Vol. 3, Issue 6 (2009)

    India is the largest producer of medicinal plants and is rightly called the “Botanical garden of the World”. The medicinal plants, besides having natural therapeutic values against various diseases, also provide high qua…

  6. Review ArticlePublished: 29 Jul 2009

    K. Gauthaman, T.S. Mohamed Saleem

    pp. 264-269Vol. 3, Issue 6 (2009)

    Nutrients, herbals and dietary supplements are major constituents of nutraceuticals which make them active in maintaining health, act against various disease conditions and thus promote the quality of life. Drug as dieta…

  7. Review ArticlePublished: 29 Jul 2009

    Saikat Sen, Raja Chakraborty, Biplab De, Joydeep Mazumder

    pp. 270-279Vol. 3, Issue 6 (2009)

    World is rich in medical lore. Plants are the basis of life on earth and are central to people's livelihoods. The use of plants in religious ceremonies as well as for magic and medicinal purposes is very commonplace and …

  8. Review ArticlePublished: 29 Jul 2009

    Zlatina Kokanova-Nedialkova, Paraskev T. Nedialkov, Stefan D. Nikolov

    pp. 280-305Vol. 3, Issue 6 (2009)

    The review includes 154 references on the genus Chenopodium covered up to December 2008 and has been compiled using references mainly from Chemical Abstracts and Pubmed. This article briefly reviews the phytochemistry, e…

  9. Review ArticlePublished: 29 Jul 2009

    Neeru Vasudeva, Manisha Vats, S.K. Sharma, Satish Sardana

    pp. 307-319Vol. 3, Issue 6 (2009)

    Dalbergia is a genus of trees, shrubs and woody climbers widely distributed in tropical and sub- tropical regions. It possesses immense traditional application. Various species are widely used as analgesic, anti-inflamma…

  10. Review ArticlePublished: 29 Jul 2009

    Mahajan R.T., Chopda M.Z

    pp. 320-329Vol. 3, Issue 6 (2009)

    Herbs have always been the natural form of medicine in India. Medicinal plants have curative properties due to presence of various complex chemical substances of different composition which contain secondary metabolites …

  11. Review ArticlePublished: 29 Jul 2009

    Arjun Patra, Shivesh Jha, P. Narasimha Murthy

    pp. 330-341Vol. 3, Issue 6 (2009)

    Hygrophila spinosa T. Anders (Acanthaceae) is described in Ayurvedic literature as Ikshura, Ikshugandha and Kokilasha “having eyes like Kokila or Indian cuckoo”, common in moist places on the banks of tanks, ditches, pad…

  12. Review ArticlePublished: 29 Jul 2009

    T.S. Mohamed Saleem, C. Madhusudhana Chetty, S. Ramkanth, M. Alagusundaram, K. Gnanaprakash, V.S. Thiruvengada Rajan, S. Angalaparameswari

    pp. 342-345Vol. 3, Issue 6 (2009)

    Solanum nigrum Linn. (Solanaceae) commonly known as ‘Black nightshade’ that have been extensively used in traditional medicine in India and other parts of world to cure liver disorders, chronic skin ailments (psoriasis a…

  13. Review ArticlePublished: 29 Jul 2009

    Chanchal Garg, S A Khan, S. H. Ansari, Arti Suman, Munish Garg

    pp. 346-352Vol. 3, Issue 6 (2009)

    Foeniculum vulgare is a widely distributed plant in most tropical and subtropical countries and have long been used in folk medicines to treat obstruction of the liver, spleen and gall bladder and for digestive complaint…

  14. Review ArticlePublished: 29 Jul 2009

    Om Prakash, Rajesh Kumar, Anurag Mishra, Rajiv Gupta

    pp. 353-358Vol. 3, Issue 6 (2009)

    Artocarpus heterophyllus (Syn. Kathal) belonging to family Moraceae is an integral part of common Indian diet and is freely available in Indian and adjoining continents, its medicinal properties are also mentioned in Ayu…

  15. Review ArticlePublished: 29 Jul 2009

    Manish Devgun, Arun Nanda, S. H. Ansari

    pp. 359-363Vol. 3, Issue 6 (2009)

    The Pterocarpus marsupium belong to family Fabaceae and is widely distributed in central, western and southern regions of India. The role of Pterocarpus marsupium as anti-diabetic has been very well established. Its extr…

  16. Review ArticlePublished: 29 Jul 2009

    Anjoo Kamboj, Ajay Kumar Saluja

    pp. 364-374Vol. 3, Issue 6 (2009)

    Bryophyllum pinnatum (Lam.) Kurz ( Crassulaceae) is a perennial herb growing widely and used in folkloric medicine in tropical Africa, tropical America, India, China, and Australia. The divine herb contains a wide range …

  17. Review ArticlePublished: 29 Jul 2009

    V. Devmurari, Shivanand P, M.B. Goyani, S. Vaghani, N.P. Jivani

    pp. 375-377Vol. 3, Issue 6 (2009)

    Various herbal drugs individually or in combination have been recommended for the treatment of different disease. The C.congesta commonly known as “karanda” has been recognized in different system of traditional medicine…

  18. Review ArticlePublished: 29 Jul 2009

    P. Rajesh, P. Selvamani, S. Latha, A. Saraswathy, V. Rajesh Kannan

    pp. 378-387Vol. 3, Issue 6 (2009)

    Medicinal plants are the nature’s gift to human being to make disease free healthy life. It plays a vital role to preserve our health. Capparidaceae family comprises various important medicinal properties distributed in …