Current Issue : July-September Volume : 2021 Issue Number : 3 Articles : 2 Articles
Obesity is a chronic disease and with time progression leads to cardiovascular and diabetes-like diseases. The drugs available for treatment are limited to use in a certain range of patients only like cardiovascular, renal and neurological complications. The diet restrictions and change in routine activities are the only suitable mode with no side effects. The patients of age more than 60 years old were trickier with control in diet or scheduled activities. The study was designed to select effective herbals reported earlier as significant fat buster to combat obesity-like disease. These herbals are ether available as crude or extract in the market to use and this study also helps researchers to pre-formulate a suitable formulation using a combination of these drugs for a better regimen in obesity....
The herbal plants are used for treatment of various diseases because of their safety and effectiveness from ancient time. Withania somnifera is an important member of plant family Solanacea. Commonly known as Ashwagandha. It is found in throughout the drier parts of South East Asia including India, Bangladesh, Sri-Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan, different parts of Australia, Africa and America. Withania somnifera is cultivated in many of the drier regions of India. In India, it is widely distributed in Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab Gujarat and Rajasthan. Its roots, leaves, flowers and pods contain carbohydrate, protein, aminoacids, steroids, flavonoids, alkaloids, tannins, phenolic compounds, oxalic acid, inorganic compounds, saponins and withanoloides. Pharmacological investigations have revealed the presence of several activities like antioxidant, antibacterial, analgesic, antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, hypoglycemic, diuretic and hypo cholesterolemic, anxiolytic, antitumor activity, anticancer, antifungal, hypoglycaemic and hypolipidaemic activities. This article is an attempt to present the overview of pharmacognostical, phytochemical and pharmacological studies reported on Withania somnifera....
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