Abstract

A number of plants have been described in Ayurveda and other traditional medicine for the management of Arthritis. However, information about them is not easily available. We developed a database to maintain the record of medicinal plants having anti-arthritic activity. The database contains information such as plant name, botanical name, useful plant parts, its geographical distribution, taxonomy, clinical/experimental data as well as its other uses. All records in database are accessed alphabetically. The current database contains 112 plants species records. The database also contains general information about Arthritis such as its types, sign and symptoms, prevention and treatment.

Key words: Arthritis, database, medicinal plants.

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HTML, hyper text markup language; OS, operating system; GB, giga byte;RAM, random access memory.