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Medicinal Plants in Natural Health Care as Phytopharmaceuticals
Published in Anil K. Sharma, Raj K. Keservani, Surya Prakash Gautam, Herbal Product Development, 2020
It is widely distributed along with other species throughout the tropical and sub-tropical plains all over India and Sri Lanka up to an altitude of 1050 m. Sida cordifolia is a small, erect, downy shrub. Its main chemical constituents are alkaloids, fatty oil, phytosterol, mucin, resin, acids and potassium nitrate. The leaves, stem and root yield 0.085% and the seeds about 0.3% alkaloid. The main portion of the alkaloid is ephedrine and 0.4% rutin is present in the plant. The plant is reputed for its tonic and aphrodisiac properties. The plant parts are used for the fever, fits, leucorrhoea, micturitin, gonorrhoea, colic, nervous disorders, general debility and heart irregularity. The root juice is used for the healing of the wound and the curing facial paralysis and sciatica and the leaves are used for curing the bloody flux, useful in ophthalmic, rheumatism shivering, fits and improve sexual strength (Singh and Navneet, 2018).
Ayurveda in the West
Published in D. Suresh Kumar, Ayurveda in the New Millennium, 2020
There are many other reasons why the B.A.M.S. syllabus is inappropriate for most Western countries. Certainly, there is no other medical university system in the world today using a 70-year-old syllabus to teach medical doctors. Additionally, trying to export the ayurvedic pharmacopeia also is impractical. Common herbal ingredients such as Sida cordifolia, Linn. and Withania somnifera, Dunal are illegal in European countries due to their high level of biochemical activity (Anonymous 2019f). Another aspect of exporting the ayurvedic pharmacopeia is that this additional demand on natural resources creates a shortage of medicinal plants in India. The price of Withania somnifera has increased over ten times since 1993 (e.g., RS 40 per kg to RS 400 per kg).
The Ayurvedic Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases
Published in Anne George, K. S. Joshy, Mathew Sebastian, Oluwatobi Samuel Oluwafemi, Sabu Thomas, Holistic Approaches to Infectious Diseases, 2017
Sida cordifolia is a small plant, growing to about 1.5 meters in height with strong roots and stem with heart-shaped leaves and odorless yellow flowers. The roots are normally harvested for their medicinal activities though it has been shown that there are active ingredients in the leaves as well (Pole et al., 2006). Especially in the roots, this plant has been shown to have tonic properties, which help various nervous disorders such as hemiplegia and facial paralysis (Rastogi and Malhotra, 1985).
Assessment of Toxicity and Wound Healing Activity of Selaginella Bryopteris Extract
Published in Drug and Chemical Toxicology, 2023
Shravan Kumar Paswan, Pritt Verma, Sajal Srivastava, Chandana Venkateswara Rao
The closer of the wound after treatment with S. bryopteris extract (10%) was 97.13% in 48 h as compared to the control group. It suggested that S. bryopteris extract accelerated the wound healing process due to the migration of fibroblasts. This result was in agreement with the study of Bolla et al. (2019). In vivo studies on animals showed a significant tensile strength of injured tissues after treatment with the S. bryopteris ointment. Similar results were reported by Pawar et al. (2013) via their experiment on rats for evaluation of wound healing activity of Sida cordifolia ointment (Pawar et al.2013). They reported that chemical constituents of Sida cordifolia mainly consist of flavonoids, triterpenes, steroids, sterols and proteins responsible for wound healing activity. They described a significant decrease in wound area from day 8 onward indicating early healing. In incision wounds, the researchers observed an increase in tensile strength of treated wounds and that may be due to the increase in collagen concentration and stabilization of the fibers.