Letícia V. Costa‐Lotufo, Mahmud Tareq Hassan Khan, Arjumand Ather, Diego Veras Wilke et al.
The present study evaluated the anticancer potential of 11 plants used in Bangladeshi folk medicine. The extracts were tested for cytotoxicity using the brine shrimp lethality assay, sea urchin eggs assay, hemolysis assay and MTT assay using tumor cell lines. The extract of Oroxylum indicum showed t...
Ilyass Alami Merrouni, Loubna Kharchoufa, Noureddine Bencheikh, Mostafa Elachouri
Background: Northeastern Morocco is characterized by a wide range of plants. However, the list of medicinal herbs used in this area has not been identified completely. This work aims to give an exhaustive compendium of medicinal plants used by people in this region. We then compare the plants listed...
Alok Pal Jain, SantoshSingh Bhadoriya, Aditya Ganeshpurkar, Jitendra Narwaria et al.
Tamarindus is a monotypic genus and belongs to the subfamily Caesalpinioideae of the family Leguminosae (Fabaceae), Tamarindus indica L., commonly known as Tamarind tree is one of the most important multipurpose tropical fruit tree species in the Indian subcontinent. Tamarind fruit was at first thou...
Md Shahadat Hossan, Bipasha Agarwala, Shahnawaz Sarwar, M. M. Karim et al.
The rural population of Bangladesh has traditionally depended on folk medicinal healers for cure of their ailments. These healers use medicinal plants as their primary source of medicinal formulations. Rural patients are more dependent on traditional or folk medicinal healers for cure of urinary tra...
Mohammed Rahmatullah, Dilara Ferdausi, AH Mollik, Rownak Jahan et al.
Kavirajes or traditional medicinal practitioners form the primary healthcare providers of the predominantly rural population of Bangladesh. Kavirajes use a variety of medicinal plants for treatment of different ailments. The formulations prepared from medicinal plants vary considerably between Kavir...
Mohammad Omar Faruque, Shaikh Bokhtear Uddin, James W. Barlow, Sheng Hu et al.
This study documents information on significant ethnomedicinal plants, which was collected from the traditional healers of three indigenous communities of Bangladesh. The documented data were quantitatively analyzed for the first time in this area. The information was obtained through open-ended, se...
Melanie‐Jayne R. Howes, Cassandra L. Quave, Jérôme Collemare, Evangelos C. Tatsis et al.
Societal Impact Statement Plants and fungi have provided, or inspired, key pharmaceuticals for global health challenges, including cancer, heart disease, dementia, and malaria, and are valued as traditional medicines worldwide. Global demand for medicinal plants and fungi has threatened certain spec...
Mohammed Ariful Haque Mollik, Md Shahadat Hossan, Alok Kumar Paul, M. Taufiq-ur-Rahman et al.
An ethnomedicinal survey conducted in two sub-districts (upazillas) each of three districts of Bangladesh revealed that there is both inter- and intra-district variation between the choices of medicinal plants selected by folk medicinal healers (kavirajes) to treat any specific ailment. The variatio...
Akash Tariq, Sehrish Sadia, Kaiwen Pan, Ihteram Ullah et al.
Cancer is a serious health problem and the second leading cause of death around the globe. Present review is an attempt to provide utmost information based on ethno-pharmacological and toxicological aspects of anti-cancer plants of the world. A total of 276 articles published in English journals and...
Rajib Ahsan, K.M. Monirul Islam, Israt Jahan Bulbul, Ashik Musaddik et al.
2 Abstract: The methanol extracts of plant materials of some plants like Casuarina equisetifolia, Cajanus cajan, Glycosmis pentaphylla, Bixa orellana, Argemone mexicana, Physalis minima, Caesalpinia bonduc, belonging to the different family were studied for hepatoprotective activity against Swiss al...
Loubna Kharchoufa, Ilyass Alami Merrouni, Amal Yamani, Mostafa Elachouri
In the North Eastern region of Morocco, many people are interested in medicinal plants and their uses. However, the rationale for the utilization of medicinal plants has remained largely underestimated with little or no scientific data on plant safety. In this paper we attempt to describe and establ...
Md Nazrul Islam Bhuiyan, Jaripa Begum, Mahbuba Sultana
The essential oils from leaves and fruits of Coriandrum sativum L. were analyzed by gas chromatography mass spectroscopy (GC-MS). The leaf oil contained 44 compounds mostly of aromatic acids containing 2-decenoic acid (30.8%), E-11-tetradecenoic acid (13.4%), capric acid (12.7%), undecyl alcohol (6....
Md. Khirul Islam, Sanjib Saha, Imran Mahmud, Khalit Mohamad et al.
Ethnopharmacological relevance Madhupur forest area, Tangail is one of early human settlements in Bangladesh. Having abode in the vicinity of the forest, a strong ethnobotanical practice has prevailed in this area since ancient time. Due to the rapid deforestation during the last few decades, many p...
Mohamed Bnouham, Abdelkhaleq Legssyer, Hassane Mekhfi, Abderrahim Ziyyat
The present review shows a listing of medicinal plants used in phytotherapy of diabetes and those experimentally studied as hypoglycaemic in Morocco. The review is presented as 3 tables. The first one includes the taxonomic classification of the plant, the popular names in Morocco, the parts used, t...