Current Issue : April - June Volume : 2018 Issue Number : 2 Articles : 5 Articles
Apiaceae (Umbelliferae) family is one of the biggest plant families on the earth. Iran has a huge diversity of Apiaceae members. Apiaceae was first described by John Lindleyin 1836. This family possesses a range of compounds that have many biological activities. The members of this family are well known as vegetables, culinary and medicinal plants. It is the 16th-largest family of flowering plants including such well-known and economically important plants such as angelica, anise, asafoetida, caraway, carrot, celerychervil, coriander, cumin, dill, fennel, hemlock, lovage, cow parsley, parsley, parsnip. Apiaceae or Umbelliferae, is a family of mostly aromatic flowering plants. The name is derived from the type genus Apium. The family, Umbelliferae, derives from the inflorescence being generally in the form of a compound umbel. Many members of this family are cultivated for various purposes that are large enough to be useful as food. Many species produce essential oils in their leaves or fruits. The seeds may be used in cuisine. Several plants of the Apocynaceae family members have had economic uses in the past. The family is most abundant in the northern hemisphere, though can be found worldwide. Botanically, the Apiacea family has been organised and categorized in different ways over the last several centuries. One such classification system breaks the family into 3 subfamilies. The Apioideae, saniculoideae and hydrocotyloideae and then further dividing these into a series of tribes and subtribes....
Trachyspermum ammi (Linn.) Spr. (Ajwain) is an important medicinal and spice crop, It is an annual, erect herb with soft fine hairs. Floral biology recently developed into a full grown community science. After the eminent work of Precival, number of scientists have paid attention towards the floral biology of angiosperm. The area of study was Rewa district. The investigations pertaining of floral biology of plant was carried out in the field and laboratory. Blooming pattern and floral phenology, pollination and breeding pattern and fruit and seed setting methods used for this study. Plant under study exhibits both open and insect pollination. However, maximum fruit setting was observed as a consequence of insect pollination. The insects visiting the flowers obtain pollen and nectar. The plant study gives maximum pollination value (91.3) in the month of December and minimum (74.5) in the month of November. It has been observed that the plant require maximum days (34.3) for ripening of fruits in the month of January and minimum (24.3 days) in March. The fruit set percentage in insect pollinated flowers was higher (80.6%) to that of natural open pollination (46.3%). It may be therefore concluded that insects visiting the flower do enhance the rate of fruit setting by promoting cross pollination. An average seed output/plant and average germination percentage under different conditions have been recorded to estimate the reproductive capacity. The species under study have a medium reproductive capacity. Due to adoption of improved production technology, the productivity (seed and straw yields and total biomass or biological yields) have been increased and cultivators can get handsome financial gain by cultivating this crop....
The objective of this work was to develop bioadhesive gel from the herbal extracts (G. glabra and A. catechu) and clove oil for oral mucosal drug delivery with more permeability and less side effects in comparison to other dosage forms for oral mucosal drug delivery such as patches, tablets, ointments, films and powders. Clove oil as oil, triethanolamine as surfactant, propylene glycol as co-surfactant was selected for the preparation of gel. The gel was prepared using different combinations of surfactant, co-surfactant and polymer (Carbopol-934P). Formulations were prepared in different batches (G1 to G4) and the prepared gel was evaluated in terms of appearance, pH, viscosity, spreadibility, drug content and in-vitro drug release. The formulations were shown maximum in-vitro release upto 6 hr and after that the release was constant. Formulation batch G4 was better than other formulations in respect to in-vitro release profile and viscosity....
Caralluma fimbriata is a cactus like plant that is naturally found in India. Many herb remedies have been employed in various medicinal systems for the treatment and management of various diseases. The plant Caralluma fimbriata has been used in traditional system of medicine. Sanskrit name of Caralluma fimbriata is Yugmaphallottatna. It contains glycosides, flavonoids and tannins. This plant showing many pharmacological activity and also traditionally used for dermatitis, obesity treatment, wound healing treatment....
Sesbania grandiflora (family: Fabaceae) commonly known as 'sesbania', is widely used as Indian folk medicine. Sesbania grandiflora has the common names of Agati, Corkwood Tree and West Indian Pea. Traditionally Sesbania gradiflora is used alone or with other medicinal plants to treat a variety of ailments. Research studies leading to extraction, isolation and biological study of plant constituents have now formed the major field of study....
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