The use of plant extract to cure diseases has been the traditional way used in many parts of the world. The synthetic drugs used now are more prone to cause side effects than curing the disease. Hence, the use of plant extract has now emerged due to their effective action against the disease without causing any side effects. The plants belonging to the family called Euphorbia are widely used in medicine for its wide medicinal properties. The plant Euphorbia hirta has properties like anti-bacterial, anti-diarrheal, anti-allergic, diuretic, anti-oxidant, anti-tumor, anti-diabetic, anxiolytic and sedative activity. This review contains the detailed information about all the properties of E. hirta.
Phytotherapy is the traditional method used to cure many diseases. Various medicinal plants found in many parts of India are well known for their various medicinal values. The Terminalia chebula Retz. a native plant of Asia is found to have various properties like anti-oxidant and free radical scavenging activity, anti-carcinogenic activity, ant-imutagenic activity, anti-bacterial activity, anti-fungal activity, anti-viral activity, anti-diabetic, renoprotective activity, cardio-protective activity, anti-inflammatory and anti-arthritic activity. These properties of T. chebula discussed in this review are mainly due to the presence of various types of phytoconstituents.
A novel inhibitor of filarial topoisomerase II was isolated from the culture filtrate of native isolate Micrococcus luteus B1252. The methanolic extract of the cell pellet was partially purified by silica column chromatography and preparative high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). The active fraction obtained from HPLC was subjected to gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy (GC-MS) analysis which revealed the presence of 11 compounds. The fatty acid ester derivatives (Z) 15tetracosenoic acid, methyl ester present in the partially purified extract of M. luteus B1252 is suggested to be the active principle which inhibits topo II.
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