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ADVANCED PHARMACOGNOSTICAL STUDIES ON SELECTED HERBS USEFUL IN THE TREATMENT OF UROLITHIASIS

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Title ADVANCED PHARMACOGNOSTICAL STUDIES ON SELECTED HERBS USEFUL IN THE TREATMENT OF UROLITHIASIS
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Contributor Dr.R. Senthamarai
 
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Description Nature has been a source of medicinal agents for thousands of years and an
newlineimpressive number of modern drugs have been isolated from natural sources. The plantbased,
newlinetraditional medicine systems continue to play an essential role in health care, with
newlineabout 80% of the world s inhabitants relying mainly on traditional medicines for their
newlineprimary health care. Herbal drugs constitute a major part in all traditional systems of
newlinemedicines; it is a triumph of popular therapeutic diversity. Plants above all other agents have
newlinebeen used as medicine from time immemorial.
newlineIn the recent past there had been a tremendous increase in the use of plant based
newlinehealth products in developing as well as developed countries resulting in an exponential
newlinegrowth of herbal products globally. Herbal medicines have a strong traditional or conceptual
newlinebase and the potential to be useful as drugs in terms of safety and effectiveness for treating
newlinedifferent diseases. In recent times there has been a marked shift towards herbal cures because
newlineof the pronounced cumulative and irreversible reactions of modern drugs. However, due to
newlineover population, urbanization and continuous exploitation of the herbal reserves, the natural
newlineresources along with their related traditional knowledge are depleting day by day.
newlineIn the present era of drug development and discovery of newer drug molecules many
newlineplant products are evaluated on the basis of their traditional uses. In this study three
newlinetherapeutically important medicinal plants have been selected for the evaluation towards
newlinepharmacognostical, physicochemical, phytochemical and their pharmacological activity
newlinerelated to antiurolithiasis.
newlineAchyranthes aspera Linn. (AA) belonging to the family Amaranthaceae, is an
newlineimportant medicinal herb found as a weed throughout India. Though almost all of its parts are
newlineused in traditional systems of medicines, seeds, roots and shoots are the most important parts
newlinewhich are used medicinally.
newlineMoringa oleifera Lam.
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Date 2017-06-09T06:06:39Z
2017-06-09T06:06:39Z
3-2-2009
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15-05-2017
 
Type Ph.D.
 
Identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10603/153325
 
Language English
 
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Publisher Thanjavur
Periyar Maniammai University
Department of Biotechnology
 
Source University