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Pharmaceutical uses and conservation measures of Potentilla fugens: A medicinal herb of higher Himalaya.

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Title Pharmaceutical uses and conservation measures of Potentilla fugens: A medicinal herb of higher Himalaya.
 
Creator Kaul, Kiran
Jaitak, V
Kaul , V K
 
Subject Plant sciences
Natural Product Chemistry
 
Description Plenteous ethnotherapeutic properties and sharmacological actions have been attributed to Poteontilla Wall.ex Hook.(Family-Rosaceae). It is one of the highly valued indigenous medicinal herbs of higher Himalaya. Biomedical reports have in dicated presence of medicinally important chemical constituents represented by Polyhenols, tannins, flavonoids and triterpenoids in the genus. Pharmacological studies report that P.gulgens possesses anti-hyperglycemic, hypoglycemic, anti-hyperlipidemic, antitumor, antioxodent, antiinflammatory and antiulcerogenic properties thus supporting its ethnotherapeutic use. In view of immense medicinal importance of the plant, this review aims to coherently discuss the results abtained from several studies on its chemical constituents, pharmacological use, cultivation and conservation strategies.
 
Date 2011
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://ihbt.csircentral.net/935/1/IJNPR_2%283%29_298-306.pdf
Kaul, Kiran and Jaitak, V and Kaul , V K (2011) Pharmaceutical uses and conservation measures of Potentilla fugens: A medicinal herb of higher Himalaya. Indian Journal of Natural Products and Resurces, 2 (3). pp. 298-306.
 
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