Current Issue : January-March Volume : 2023 Issue Number : 1 Articles : 2 Articles
In the last few decades there has been an exponential growth in the field of herbal medicine. Herbal medicines have been the basis of treatment and cure for various diseases and physiological conditions in traditional methods of practice such as Ayurveda, Unani and Siddha. Medicinal components from plants play an important role in conventional as well as western medicine. They were the sole source of active principles capable of curing man’s ailments. Thus natural products have been a major source of drugs for centuries. Syzygium aqueum, commonly called water apple (Myrtaceae), is a tropical, evergreen and low growing small tree. It consisting of various fruit colors is one of the plants that have been used as traditional medicine. The present review is an attempt to highlight the various ethanobotanical and traditional uses as well as phytochemical and pharmacological reports on Syzygium aqueum....
Medicinal plants are the best source to obtain different drugs, about 80% of people in industrialized countries uses traditional medicines for their health benefit. Herbal medicine has been the basis of treatment and cure various physiological condition in traditional methods of practice such as Ayurveda, Unani and Siddha. Melaleuca viminalis, commonly known as weeping bottlebrush or creek bottlebrush, is a plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae, (Some Australian state herbaria continue to use the name Callistemon viminalis) is known to have medical importance. An ornamental plant stands for its numerous attributes such as antibacterial, antifungal, anthelmintic hemostatic, diuretic. Studies have shown anthelmintic, anti-quorum sensing, insecticidal, anti-infective, antibacterial, molluscicidal, antioxidant, anticancer, anti-inflammatory, anti-platelet aggregation properties of the said plant possess a wide range of phytoconstituents like phenolics, triterpenoids, flavonoids, saponins, steroids, alkaloids, tannin, carbohydrates, amino acids, and protein compounds. This review includes the information concerning the cultivation, morphology, microscopic studies, phytochemical constituents, pharmacological action and reports on M. viminalis....
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