Medicinal Plants : Promising Future for Health and New Drugs

Content: 1 Cabbage: A store house of nutraceuticalsVandna Pandey, Abhishekh Chura and H.K. Pandey2 Phytonutrients: A relevance to human helathKumar, R, Sulaxana Kumari Chauhan, Vijayalakshmi, S and S.Nadanasabapathi3 Lukoskin: An effective herbal treatment of leucoderma developed by defence institute of bio-energy research (DRDO), HaldwaniHemant Kr. Pandey , H. S. Meena4 Centipede envenomation effects on human beings and scientific research on traditional antivenom agents: Aristolochia and Piper sp. Dhivya Sivaraj, Revathi Ponnusamy, Rahul Chandran and Thangaraj Parimelazhagan5 Anti-Diabetic Herbal Formulations: An Effective Therapeutic Approach to DiabetesBinu Thomas and Chinchu Krishna M. 6 Anti-diabetic activity by the in vitro α-Amylase and α-Glucosidase inhibitory action of Indian Ayurvedic medicinal plant Ficus amplissima SmithArunachalam K., Sreeja P.S and Parimelazhagan T.7 Anti-obese potential of Indian traditional medicinal plants and their phytochemicals Vadivel, V., Venkatalakshmi, P., and Brindha, P.8 Promise of medicinal plants for neurodegenerative disease: Alzheimer's a reviewKalidass Subramanaiam 9 Plant Sources as Potential Therapeutics for Alzheimer's diseaseAzhwar Raghunath, Kiruthika Sundarraj, Vishnu Vignesh Kanagaraj, Ekambaram Perumal10 Schefflera genus (Araliaceae): A review of its botanical description, ethnobotanical use, phytochemistry, pharmacology and toxicologySreeja P.S., Arunachalam K. and Parimelazhagan T. 11 Selective Chinese viviparous ferns, their bioactive principles and economical values: a reviewBaskaran Xavier ravi1,3*, Antony varuvel Geo vigila2, Wenbo Liao1 & Zhang Shouzhou312 Prospects of local flora of trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh for various medicinal usesGyan P. Mishra, Tsering Stobdan, Parimelazhagan Thangaraj, Tania Seth and B. Singh13 Phytochemistry of Muntingia calabura fruitsDr.K.Preethi14 Pharmacognostical and Phytochemical investigation on Pterolobium hexapetalum (Roth.) Sant.& Wagh.Saikumar Sathyanarayanan, Rahul Chandran, Murugan Rajan and Parimelazhagan Thangaraj.15 Anti-fungal and Antimycotoxigenic Properties of Pogostemon mollis Benth. Against Fusarium graminearumKasipandi Muniyandi, Elizabeth George and Parimelazhagan Thangaraj.16 In vitro biomass accumulation and different biological activities of Leucus aspera (Willd.).Masilamani Sri Devi, Krishnamoorthy Vinothini, Blassan P. George, Sudharshan Sekar, Arjun Pandian, Heidi Abrahamse 17 Antioxidant potentials of Cup Saucer plant - Breynia retusa (Dennst.) AlstonJaganathan Prabu, Rajan Murugan, Sathyanarayanan Saikumar, Murugaiyan Iniyavan, Geetha Sree Subburaj Jeyalakshmi and Thangaraj Parimelazhagan.18 The promising anti-radical potential of Castanospermum australe A. Cunn. & C. Fraser ex Hook.Sajeesh Thankarajan, Rahul Chandran and Thangaraj Parimelazhagan.19 In vitro plant regeneration, comparative biochemical and antioxidant potential of calli and seeds of sesbania grandiflora (l.) PoiretKrishnamoorthy Vinothini, Masilamani Sri Devi, Sudharshan Sekar, Blassan P. George, Pandian Arjun, Vuyo Mavumengwana, Heidi Abrahamseã