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Alpinia galanga Linn. (Zingiberaceae) presents many chemical constituents of the volatile oil extracted from the rhizome. The rhizome of Alpinia galanga is used by people in many regions for relieving toothache, abdominal pain, muscular swelling and rheumatism. This study was performed to determine the antinociceptive and anti-inflammatory activities of a methanolic extract of Alpinia galanga. Analgesic activity was evaluated by acetic acid induced writhing responses, tail flick and hot plate methods in mice. In analgesic activity the A. galanga extract significantly reduced the writhes and increased the tail withdrawal time and paw jumping in albino mice. The anti-inflammatory activity was evaluated by carrageenan induced edema in wistar albino rats. It was found that the extract inhibits the paw edema significantly (p<0.05) at both 250 mg/kg and 500 mg/kg dose levels when compared with control. The positive control drugs for analgesic and anti-inflammatory studies were employed as morphine and indomethacin, respectively. The present findings indicate the antinociceptive and anti-inflammatory effect of A. galanga extract in...
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Resurgence of public interest in traditional medicine is increasing in both the developing and developed countries. Myristica fragrans belonging to the family Myristicaceae is commonly known as jaifal and even used as home-remedies in the rural parts of the India. The fruit is used as traditional medicine more frequently for the treatment of common ailments of children in rural folklore practices at the place. Work on standardization assumes vital significance. However, no supportive data available on microscopic characteristics and standardization of the same. In this article a study has been made to fix the parameters includes botanical identification, physicochemical analysis, preliminary phytochemical analysis, HPTLC fingerprints profile, microbial screening, aflatoxin and heavy metals in order to ensure the use of only genuine and uniform material of such herbal remedies. The obtained values/ranges can be used as standards for quality control of the...
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Purpose: Bronchial Asthma is a chronic disease that affects the airways. Lung function declines faster than average in people with asthma. Overall, one study reported that 72% of men and 86% of women with asthma had symptoms 15 years after an initial diagnosis. Only 19% of these people, however, were still seeing a doctor, and only 32% used any maintenance medication. Hence a study was conducted to determine the level of medication adherence and factors associated with non adherence among patients with bronchial asthma. The objectives of the study were to assess the level of medication adherence among patients with bronchial asthma and identify the reason for non adherence to prescribed therapy and associate the level of medication adherence with the selected demographic variables. Methods: A Qualitative study design was adopted and the study was conducted in Chest OPD, Sri Ramachandra Hospital, Chennai, Tamilnadu. A total of 60 patients were selected for the study by using convenient sampling technique. Results: The result suggest that 37 (61%) has low level...
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Posted by admin on Jul 1, 2015 in |
Wound is unpreventable consequences of life, which originates due to physical damage, chemical injury and microbial pathogenic infections, which extend to loss of cellular and functional continuity of living tissue. Calotropis gigantea is a weed plant it used as a wound healing agent. Calotropis gigantea is a waste land weed. Antioxidants represent a significant function to assist human, against infections and chronic diseases. The exhibit investigation has been contained to assess the phytochemicals and invitro antioxidant activity of Calotropis gigantea. Phytochemicals were analyzed qualitatively and the result sustained the presence of alkaloids, phenols, saponin, and steroids. The invitro antioxidant activity of root was investigated by DPPH (1, 1-Diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl) and Super oxide free radical scavenging activity method. In both methods, plant extract possess high antioxidant activity when equated with standard ascorbic acid due to presence of high capacity of various phytochemicals. The pro-wound healing activity of the Calotropis gigantea extract may be due to its high content of glycosides, flavonoids, phenolic compounds, and triterpenoids with antimicrobial and antioxidant properties. From...
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Posted by admin on Jun 30, 2015 in |
Antibacterial activities of different solvent extracts of young and old leaves has been evaluated against Pseudomonas aeureginosa (ATTCC10145) an opportunistic bacteria by Agar Well Diffusion Method. Extracts of olive leaves have been prepared by using standard extraction methods and DMS was used as vehicle for all the extracts. Amikacin was used as standard drug to which P. aeruginosa was found sensitive. Augmentin to which this bacteria is resistant was used to check combine effect (if any) with olive leave extracts. Ether, Chloroform and Alcoholic extracts of old and young leaves with or without Augmentin supplementation were used to evaluate the antibacterial activities against P. aeruginosa and all of these extracts were found active. The effect was displayed as concentration dependent for all the extracts tested in this study. The ether extract showed maximum activity which was more than the alcohol, chloroform extracts and Amikacin used as standard in this study. Augmentin supplementation to these extracts does not exert any additional inhibitory effect in the activities of olive leave extracts....
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