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CASSIA TORA LINN.: AN OVERVIEW
Cassia tora Linn. (Family: Leguminosae) is well known plant widely distributed in India and other tropical countries. It is an annual under shrub and grows in wild wasteland. Different parts of the plant (Leaves, seed, and root) are reputed for their medicinal value. It is well recognized traditional medicine as laxative and is useful for treatment of leprosy, ringworm infection, ophthalmic, skin ...
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ENDODONTIC PAIN – CAUSE AND MANAGEMENT: A REVIEW
Pain is the most predominantly associated symptom with patients visit to the dental office. The pain may arise due to either an endodontic cause or a periodontic cause, but the endodontic pain type variant is the most commonly encountered by the dentists in their dental offices. Even though the endodontic pain is more common, there arises a dilemma in diagnosing and planning the treatment for the ...
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USE OF LIPOSOMES IN CANCER THERAPY: A REVIEW
Cancer is uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the body. The cells causing cancer are called malignant cells. There are so many means by which one can treat the cancer such as chemotherapy, radiation treatment, surgery, etc. With all these treatments there are some side effects as loss of hairs, living cells may get killed, for surgery skilled persons are required and chances of reoccurrences ...
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FORMULATION AND EVALUATION OF TOOTHPASTE CONTAINING COMBINATION OF ALOE AND SODIUM CHLORIDE
The formulation and evaluation of toothpaste contain Aloe vera along with the combination of sodium chloride. Aloe vera shows a number of uses either internally or externally, and the number of uses also increases as the research going on. In this formulation, we tried to find out the antimicrobial activity of Aloe vera in toothpaste formulation, for the said purpose we use S. aureus culture. Afte...
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BHUT JOLOKIA (CAPSICUM CHINENSE JAQC): A REVIEW
The northeast region of India, considered as ‘hot spot’ of biodiversity, having unique ecological environment with hot and high-humidity conditions, has given rise to the world’s hottest chilli, ‘Bhut jolokia or Bih jolokia’, which is at least two times hotter than Red Savina Habanero in terms of Scoville heat units (SHU). The Assamese word “bhut” refers to the typical large pod size...
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EXTRACTION AND CHARACTERISATION OF MUCILAGE FROM THE LEAVES OF HIBISCUS ROSA-SINENSIS LINN. (MALVACEAE)
Plant mucilages have found wide application in food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries. Hence, it would be worthwhile to characterise the physical and chemical attributes of mucilages from commonly available plants for their beneficial utilization. Hibiscus rosa-sinensis Linn. (Family Malvaceae), widely grown as an ornamental throughout the tropics and subtropicsis a good source of mucilage. ...
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EFFECTS OF ECLIPTA ALBA AND BOERHAAVIA DIFFUSSA ON NORMAL BLOOD PRESSURE AND HYPERTENSION IN RATS AND THEIR COMPARISON WITH AMLODIPINE
Background: Hypertension is an immensely pervaded problem in today’s population and is a unanimous major risk factor for heart diseases. Various natural herbs have been found to control the hypertension exquisitely without causing any significant adverse effect. Eclipta alba (EA) and Boerhaavia diffusa (BD) are two herbaceous plants. EA is used to treat hepatic-dysfunction, hair diseases and ane...
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MEDICATED CHEWING GUM – A 21st CENTURY DRUG DELIVERY SYSYTEM
In recent years scientific and technological advancements have been made in the research and development of oral drug delivery system. The reasons that the oral route achieved such popularity may be in part attributed to its ease of administration. Over the years, patient convenience and patient compliance-oriented research in the field of drug delivery has resulted in bringing out potential innov...
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RECENT NOVEL ADVANDCEMENTS IN PELLET FORMULATION: A REVIEW
Pelletization can be defined as an agglomeration process that converts fine powders or particles of a bulk drug and excipients into small, free-flowing, more or less spherical units, called pellets. The size of the pellets is 0.5-2mm. Pellets have the free flowing capacity and have low porosity about 10%. Preparation methods include direct pelletizing,powder layering,Suspension or Solution layerin...
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A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW ON ANNONA RETICULATA
Indian literatures like Ayurveda and various ancient literatures have stated herbal remedies for a number of human ailments. Annona reticulata which is commonly known as bullock's-heart in English and Ramphal in Hindi and Marathi is having various pharmacological activities such as antioxidant, anticancer, analgesic and CNS depressant, antimalarial, anthelmintic, in syphilis and few more. Some c...
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