Kencur (Kampferia galanga) is a small herb from tropical Asia with medicinal properties. Its rhizome is commonly used and has various applications. It has analgesic, anti-inflammatory, nematicidal, mosquito repellent, larvicidal, and antioxidant activities. Compounds such as ethyl-trans-cinnamate and ethyl-p-methoxycinnamate contribute to its pharmacological effects through different mechanisms of action.
POST-HARVEST MANAGEMENT OF MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTSSubham Dwivedi
Postharvest Management is the stage of crop production immediately following harvest.
Post-harvest management practices include:
Cleaning the product
Sorting
Packaging
Storage
Transportation & distribution
POST-HARVEST MANAGEMENT OF MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTSSubham Dwivedi
Postharvest Management is the stage of crop production immediately following harvest.
Post-harvest management practices include:
Cleaning the product
Sorting
Packaging
Storage
Transportation & distribution
Agroforestry has a high potential for simultaneously satisfying three important objectives viz., protecting and also stabilizing the ecosystems; producing a high level of output of economic goods; and improving the income and basic materials to the rural population. It has helped in the rehabilitation of the degraded lands on the one hand and has increased farm productivity on the other. At present, agroforestry meets almost half of the demand for fuelwood, 2/3 of the small timber, approx. 70-80 per cent wood for plywood, 60 per cent raw material for paper pulp and approx. 9-11 per cent of the green fodder requirement of livestock, besides meeting the subsistence needs of the households for food, fruit, fiber, medicine etc.
Moringa is used for “tired blood” (anemia); arthritis and other joint pain
(rheumatism); asthma; cancer; constipation; diabetes; diarrhea; epilepsy;
stomach pain; stomach and intestinal ulcers; intestinal spasms; headache; heart
problems; high blood pressure; kidney stones; fluid retention; thyroid disorders;
and bacterial, fungal, viral, and parasitic infections.
Oil from moringa seeds is used in foods, perfume, and hair care products, and as a
machine.
The role of private sector in forest conservation & finance CIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Aida Greenbury, Chair of Private Sector Roundtable at the 3rd Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit, on 23–25 April 2018 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Medicinal Plants History and Chemical Constituents
Any plant which provides health-promoting characteristics, temporary relief from symptomatic problems or has curative properties based on some ethno botanic information's, secondary metabolites as an active substance with biological activity. OR Plants - herbs - grown for medicinal purposes, as opposed to growing them for culinary or ornamental purposes. OR Medicinal herbs are plants or parts of plants used for therapeutic or medical benefit.
OR
The medicinal value of these plants lies in bioactives phytochemical constituents that produce definite physiological action on the human body
Agroforestry has a high potential for simultaneously satisfying three important objectives viz., protecting and also stabilizing the ecosystems; producing a high level of output of economic goods; and improving the income and basic materials to the rural population. It has helped in the rehabilitation of the degraded lands on the one hand and has increased farm productivity on the other. At present, agroforestry meets almost half of the demand for fuelwood, 2/3 of the small timber, approx. 70-80 per cent wood for plywood, 60 per cent raw material for paper pulp and approx. 9-11 per cent of the green fodder requirement of livestock, besides meeting the subsistence needs of the households for food, fruit, fiber, medicine etc.
Moringa is used for “tired blood” (anemia); arthritis and other joint pain
(rheumatism); asthma; cancer; constipation; diabetes; diarrhea; epilepsy;
stomach pain; stomach and intestinal ulcers; intestinal spasms; headache; heart
problems; high blood pressure; kidney stones; fluid retention; thyroid disorders;
and bacterial, fungal, viral, and parasitic infections.
Oil from moringa seeds is used in foods, perfume, and hair care products, and as a
machine.
The role of private sector in forest conservation & finance CIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Aida Greenbury, Chair of Private Sector Roundtable at the 3rd Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit, on 23–25 April 2018 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Medicinal Plants History and Chemical Constituents
Any plant which provides health-promoting characteristics, temporary relief from symptomatic problems or has curative properties based on some ethno botanic information's, secondary metabolites as an active substance with biological activity. OR Plants - herbs - grown for medicinal purposes, as opposed to growing them for culinary or ornamental purposes. OR Medicinal herbs are plants or parts of plants used for therapeutic or medical benefit.
OR
The medicinal value of these plants lies in bioactives phytochemical constituents that produce definite physiological action on the human body
Foeniculum vulgare (fennel) are native to southern Europe but is now naturalized in northern Europe, Australia and North America and is cultivated around the world.
Ethnobotanical studies on useful plants of Sirumalai Hills of Eastern Ghats, ...Innspub Net
The present investigation is an attempt to an ethnomedicinal plants survey carried out in Sirumalai Hills of Eastern Ghats, Dindigul district of Tamilnadu. The indigenous information of the village dwellers, tribal people, village herbalists, herbal practitioners and other traditional healers and the indigenous plants used for medicinal worthiness were collected through personal interviewes and questionnaire during field trips. The exploration revealed some unknown medical uses of medicinal plants. The locals use 44 medicinal plants for the treatment of several diseases either in single or in combination with some other ingredients. The information on correct botanical identities with family, vernacular name (Tamil), part used and traditional practice of 44 species, 40 genera and 28 families of angiosperms are discussed here for the treatment of various illnesses viz., asthma, snake bite, anthelmintic, promote coolness antipyretic, jaundice, diarrhoea, dysentery, leprosy, diuretic, diabetes, stomachache problems, paralysis and skin diseases. The dicotyledons are represented by 41 species of 37 genera and 25 families while monocotyledons are represented by 3 species of 3 genera and 3 families. The plant parts are used in the form of juice, extract, powder and paste. These uses are noteworthy for further investigation on recent scientific manner. The present study concluded that the abundance of natural ethnomedicinal information of medicinal plants may also points to a excellent potential for investigation in the discovery new medicines to fight ailments and other new uses. Get the full articles at: http://www.innspub.net/ijb-january-2012/
Effect of environmental pollution on the quality of an edible plant Alternant...Premier Publishers
The present study is the comparative analysis of phytochemical constituents and microbial load of an edible plant Alternanthera philoxeroides (Mart.) Griseb collected from unpolluted and polluted site. Preliminary phytochemical analysis was performed with acetone, aqueous, chloroform, ethanol and petroleum ether extracts (unpolluted and polluted site) of A philoxeroides that showed the presence of alkaloids, carbohydrates, saponins, phenols, flavonoids, aminoacids, diterpenes, tannin, terpenoids, protein, steroid, oxalate, coumarin and quinones. The ethanol extract showed higher number of phytochemical constituents when compared to the other extract of unpolluted site. The microbial load is also enumerated in the unpolluted and polluted site. In conclusion, phytochemical analysis revealed the presence of many phytoconstituents in ethanol extract and the microbial load is less in the unpolluted site when compared to the polluted site.
Studies that examined the therapeutic potential of plants leaf extracts
Plant Scientific Name Common Name Type of extraction Proposed active material
1. Solanum viarum Tropical Soda Apple Ether Solasodine glycoalkaloid
2. Acanthus illicifolious Harkucha Kanta Methanol Triterpenoids,Flavonoids,
Alkaloids
3. Annona squamosa Custard Apple Ethyl acetate Acetogenins,Alkaloids,
Dofamine
4 Alstonia scholaris. Chatium Methanol Alkaloids,Flavonoids
5. Calotropis gigantea Akanda Ethanol Triterpenoids,Flavonol
Glycosides
Pharmacological activities of Andrographis paniculata, Allium sativum and Adh...Open Access Research Paper
Andrographis paniculata, Allium sativum and Adhatoda vasica are the three important medicinal plants in which it is used for daily consumption by the user especially in the rural areas. Not only rural people are seeking for the medical benefits from the medicinal plants but also urban people because trying to eliminate the side effects of synthetic medicine on health. Research using these three plants should not stop here and must be extensively employed by the researchers and try to get more medical properties which is useful for the public. Andrographolide from Andrographis paniculata is the active component obtained from the aerial parts of this plant, having very bitter taste. It is a bicyclic diterpenoid lactone with multiple pharmacological activities. In 1997, garlic (Allium sativum) was the most widely used natural supplement in US house-holds. Garlic was shown to be used more than twice as much as any other natural supplement. Extract of Adhatoda vasica leaves has been used for the treatment of various diseases and disorders in Ayurved and Unani medicine. The plant has been used in the indigenous system of medicine in India for more than 2000 years. Compounds which are present in the plant/s which when consumed it promote the health of the consumers although some studies suggest that consumption may lead to toxic effect but in general it is safe to consume moderately. In many literature survey, researchers are trying the best to overcome the bacterial resistance by isolating compounds from the medicinal plants (one of the method) due to the resistance of bacterias towards synthetic chemicals. Overally this proved the importance of the medicinal plants.
This document combined the microscopic analysis, DNA barcoding results, and phytochemical fingerprints for the botanical identification of the following commercial plant materials: Epimedium sagittatum (leaf powder), Marrubium vulgare (crushed aerial parts), Pausinystalia johimbe (bark powder), Senna alexandrina (leaf powder), Trigonellum foenum-graecum ( seed powder), and Trifolium pratense (crushed aerial parts).
Screening of Preliminary Phytochemicals and Their Free Radical Scavenging Act...IJERA Editor
The aim this research paper was to evaluate the phytochemicals and free radical scavenging activities of
ethanolic extract of plants like Toddalia asiatica, Polygala arillata, Debregeasia longifolia. The main secondary
metabolites such as Alkaloids, Phenols, Flavnoids, Tannins and Saponin have been evaluated among the plants
analysed. The antioxidant potential of ethenolic extract of T. asiatica, P. arillata and D. longifolia leaf and stem
using tests involving inhibition of lipid peroxidation, hydroxyl radicals, Superoxide anions and 1, 1-diphenyl 2-
picrl – hydrazyl free radical (DDPH). The present study revealed that ethanolic extract of Leaf and stem of T.
asiatica, P. arillata and D. longifolia are the potential sources of natural antioxidants that could be of greater
importance in folkloric medicines.
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Phytochemical studies on selected medicinal plant Gymnema sylvestre.researchplantsciences
Gymnema sylvestre R. (Br).(Asclepiadaceae) is a common medicinal plant available in Tamil Nadu is a woody, climbing plant that grows in the tropical forest of central and Southern India. It also happens to be a first-rate warrior against diabetes. The plant is called Gud-mar (Gud-Jaggery, mar-kills) in India and well known for masking sweet taste. It is reported to be effective against many chronic diseases is screened for its phytochemical content, microbial activity and anti-inflammatory activity. Extracts (Alcoholic, aqueous, acetone and hexane) from the plant is prepared and analyzed. Qualitative phytochemical tests are done to detect the presence of Carbohydrate, Alkaloid, Tannins, Phenols, Saponins, Fixed oils, Gums and Mucilage. Quantitative methods like phytochemical analysis, gravimetric estimation, RBC membrane stabilization and TLC profiles are used to determine the active principle Gymnemic acid, anti-inflammatory activity and antimicrobial activity. The results showed that the leaf extracts studied contain the bio active compounds phenols, alkaloids, tannins, saponins and Gymnemic acid. Water extract of normal var. had positive reaction for carbohydrate (Molisch reagent) hairy var. leaves had negative reaction. The presence of active phytochemical substances with antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory activities may provide substantial basis for the use of this plant in ethno medicine.
Article Citation:
Gnana Sangeetha D and Jegadeesan M.
Phytochemical studies on selected medicinal plant Gymnema sylvestre.
Journal of Research in Plant Sciences (2012) 1(1): 077-082.
Full Text:
http://plantsciences.co.in/documents/PS0027.pdf
In vitro evaluation of antibacterial activity of chloroform extract Andrograp...Open Access Research Paper
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Kencur
1. KENCUR
(Kampferia galanga)
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2. is a small monocotyledonous herb from Zingiberaceae that is well
known for its medicinal properties.
The plant’s origin is from tropical Asia including southern China,
Indochina, Thailand, Taiwan, Malaysia and India
3. Kingdom : Plantae
Division : Spermaiophyta
Sub-Division : Angiospermae
Class : Monocotyledonae
Ordo : Zingiberales
Family : Zingiberaceae
Subfamily : Zingiberoideae
Genus : Kaempferia
Species : Kaempferia galanga
Classification:
4. Classification:
Part of K. Galanga which comercially traded is root’s fruit that is
buried in the soil, called rhizome
The color of young rhizome is white with higher water content
than the old one, while older rhizome’s color is yellowish white.
6. Application in medical and
pharmaceutical field
• where the mechanism is Central mechanism
involving opioid receptors and peripheral
mechanism involving cyclooxygenase
pathway
analgesic and
anti-
inflammatory
• using ethyl-trans-cinnamate, ethyl-p-
methoxycinnamate active constituent
• the mechanism involves mode of delivery of
constituents is partly through steam phase
nematicidal
activity
7. Application in medical and
pharmaceutical field
• where the possible mechanism of
action is Destruction of ionic regulation
in the anal gills
mosquito
repellent and
larvicidal activity
• using total phenolic content and
flavovoids including luteolin and
apigenin
anti-oxidant
activity
anti microbial
activity
• where ethyl-p-methoxycinnamat acts as
its active constituent
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