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Commelina diffusa is widely known as the climbing dayflower or spreading dayflower, which is an annual herb belonging to the family Commelinaceae that has been used as a medicinal plant for centuries. This plant distributes dispersedly with heavy branches and slowly grows along the soil. The plant can be found in the tropical and subtropical locations worldwide. Commelina diffusa has been used for many years to heal swelling, treatment of urinary tract infection and respiratory tract infections, diarrhea, enteritis, and hemorrhoids. The plant has also been used in fever, malaria, insect, bug bites, rheumatoid arthritis, gonorrhea, influenza, and bladder infection, etc. There are some experiments that have been conducted to observe the pharmacological properties of this plant. In this paper, all the reported pharmacological properties of this plant were reviewed such as anti-inflammatory activity, antioxidant activity, antibacterial activity, antifungal activity, nephroprotective activity, hepatoprotective activity, central nervous system (CNS) depressant activity,...
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Posted by admin on Jan 31, 2019 in |
A new era of science and technology has evolved in pharmaceutical research focused on the development of different novel drug delivery systems. The evolution of an existing drug from its traditional form to a novel delivery system may considerably improve its performance in aspects of efficacy, safety, and patient compliance. The goal of any drug delivery system is to provide a therapeutic amount of drug to the proper site in the body and then maintain the desired drug concentration. The microsphere is typically injected, but oral dosage forms are being developed to improve the treatment of gastrointestinal conditions. In future microspheres will find the central place in novel drug delivery, particularly in diseased cell sorting, diagnostics, genetic materials, targeted and effective drug delivery. Microspheres are multiparticulate drug delivery systems which are prepared to obtain prolonged or controlled drug delivery to improve bioavailability, stability and to target the drug to a specific site at a predetermined rate. These delivery systems offer numerous advantages compared to conventional dosage forms, which include...
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Posted by admin on Jan 15, 2018 in |
Herbal drugs obtained from numerous plants/herbs were extensively utilized in the prevention or treatment of various human ailments since ancient era. Ayurveda, the Indian traditional system of medicine means “science of life and longevity.” The unbeaten heritage of this system is a treasure house of knowledge for both preventive and curative health care available to humankind. It has provided treatment of many diseases using herbs, metals, minerals and formulating them into potent dosage forms. It deals with both prevention and cures the disease of a human being most systematically. Ayurveda is one of the world’s oldest alternative systems of medicines. Herbal products are of interest to many patients and health care practitioners because 70% of the world populations rely on herbal medicines for part of their primary health care system. This research work was designed to evaluate the anti-diabetic activity of Bilwadi Churna (a polyherbal formulation) in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats and compare with standard drug glibenclamide. In conclusion, it demonstrated that polyherbal formulations have a significant and potent anti-diabetic...
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Posted by admin on Jan 15, 2018 in |
Lagerstroemia speciosa, commonly known as jarul, is one of those precious medicinal herbs of Lythraceae that are still included in un-utilized herbs in spite of the variety of useful pharmacological properties it possesses. Extracts of Lagerstroemia speciosa have anti-diabetic, hypoglycemic, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-obesity, xanthine-oxidase inhibitors, antibacterial, antiviral, cytotoxic, anti-fibrotic, antinociceptive, antidiarrhoeal and other activities. Here, we have reviewed all the reported phytochemistry and pharmacological properties of the plant and its...
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Introduction: Oral rehydration therapy is a life-saving intervention to save the lives of children. However, millions of children die every year due to failure to replace body fluid effectively. Therefore, this study was aimed to assess knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) of caretakers towards ORS on the management of diarrhea among under-five children in Aysaita town, Afar Regional State, Ethiopia. Methods: A community based cross-sectional study was conducted in May 2016. Data were collected using a pretested structured questionnaire. The data were cleaned, coded, and entered into EpiData version 3.02 and exported to SPSS version 20 statistical package for analysis. Then descriptive statistics were used to describe the study variables. Results: One hundred seventy-two (72.9%) of the study, children had diarrhea at least once in their lifetime. Two hundred twelve (89.8%) of the caretakers had defined diarrhoea as passing of three or more watery stool. Furthermore, 164 (69.5%) of the care takers knew at least one danger sign of dehydration. Of 172 study children who had diarrhoea at least...
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