Current Issue : July-September Volume : 2016 Issue Number : 3 Articles : 1 Articles
Medicinal plants have assumed greater importance in the recent days, due to the tremendous potential they offer in formulating new drugs which afflict humankind against many diseases. During the past one century there had been a rapid growth of allopathic system of medical treatment India. There is now a growing focus on the importance of medicinal plants and the traditional health systems in solving the healthcare problems of the world. Most developing countries have viewed traditional medical practice as an integral part of their culture. Medicinal plants have curative properties due to the presence of various complex chemical substances of different composition, which are found as secondary metabolites in one or more parts of the plants. Hence evaluation of pharmacological activities likes antioxidant and anti-diabetic activities of chloroform, methanolic and aqueous extracts of Ehretia laevis Roxb whole plant was studied. Results proved that the plant Ehretia laevis Roxb was found to have very high antioxidant and anti-diabetic activities....
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