July 2015

A review of ethnopharmacology of the commonly used antimalarial herbal agents for traditional medicine practice in Ethiopia

Malaria is one of the parasitic infections that cause enormous public health, economic, and emotional burden in many tropical and subtropical countries of the world. Resistance of the vector mosquitoes to the current insecticides as well as the emergence of multidrug resistance by malaria parasite to widely used antimalarial drugs has made malaria control and treatment much more difficult. New alternative antimalarial...

Author(s): Asmare Amuamuta and Kesara Na-Bangchang

July 2015

Analgesic activity of medicinally important leaf of Diplazium esculentum

The use of medicinal plants in modern medicine suffers from the fact that though hundred of plants are used in the world to prevent or to cure disease, scientific evidence in term of modern medicine is lacking in most cases. However, today it is necessary to provide scientific proof as to whether or not it is justified to use a plant or its active constituents. Pain and inflammation are considered one of the oldest...

Author(s): Sonia Chawla, Saurabh Chawla, Veerma Ram, Alok Semwal and Ramandeep Singh