Medicinal Plants of India: Implications in Modern Medicine

Vijayan, Nimisha; Swapna, T. S.; Kiran, George Seghal; Sabu, Abdulhameed

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-3573-9_18

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“…Plants are the natural source of antioxidants and are being used as therapeutic agents for the treatment of various diseases across the world. According to the World Health Organization, about 80% of the earth's population rely on traditional medicines obtained from the plant extracts or their bioactive components for maintaining good health (Vijayan, Swapna, Seghal Kiran, & Abdulhameed, ). Reactive oxygen species (ROS) have been found to play a key role in the initiation of many diseases such as diabetes and cancer.…”

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Phytochemical profiling, polyphenol composition, and antioxidant activity of the leaf extract from the medicinal halophyteThespesia populneareveal a potential source of bioactive compounds and nutraceuticals

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The present study evaluated the phytochemical constituents, nutritional attributes, and the antioxidant capacity of the medicinal halophyte Thespesia populnea. The metabolite profiling by GC‐QTOF‐MS analysis identified 37 metabolites among which sucrose, malic acid, and turanose were the most abundant. A total of 18 polyphenols and 17 amino acids were identified by the HPLC‐DAD analysis. The most abundant polyphenols in T. populnea were gallic acid, catechin, and myricetin. Other polyphenols like protocatechuic acid, epigallocatechin gallate, rosmarinic acid, ellagic acid, rutin, and naringenine were also detected in ample amounts. The leaf extract demonstrated higher antioxidant as well as lipid peroxidation inhibition activities. A correlation analysis revealed a positive correlation between the antioxidant capacity and the phenolic compounds viz. gallic acid, catechin, myricetin, quercetin, apigenin, cinnamic acid, and coumarin which indicates that these phenolic compounds are the main contributors of the antioxidant potential of T. populnea. The results of this study establish T. populnea as a potential source of nonconventional functional food. Practical applications The data presented here indicate that T. populnea can be considered as a nonconventional functional food and potential source of energy, antioxidants, minerals, essential amino acids, and bioactive compounds in herbal formulations, food supplements, or nutraceuticals. The metabolites identified from this halophyte have pharmacological and nutraceutical potentials, suggesting T. populnea as an ideal candidate for application in the food and phytopharmaceutical industries to produce health‐promoting products, functional foods, and herbal medicines.

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Phytochemical profiling, polyphenol composition, and antioxidant activity of the leaf extract from the medicinal halophyteThespesia populneareveal a potential source of bioactive compounds and nutraceuticals

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“…Many clinical trials on the use of nutritional supplements and modified diets to prevent cancer are on-going. Medicinal plants are utilized both internally like herbal teas and externally such as poultice, decoction, ointment and other herbal formulations in order to cure a broad spectrum of ailments (3,4). The relevant biological activities are attributed to a vast array of phytochemicals ('phyto' is from the Greek word meaning plant)-the bioactive non-nutrient plant compounds.…”

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Anti-proliferative, genotoxic and cytotoxic effects of phytochemicals isolated from Anatolian medicinal plants

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Farooqi

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Cell Mol Biol (Noisy-le-grand)

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The potential of natural products in cancer prevention and treatment has received worldwide interest in recent years from the nutraceutical and pharmaceutical industry point of view. Medicinal plants have been traditionally used as they exhibit a wide range of therapeutic effects due to their phytoconstituents which play an active role against oxidative stress-associated diseases such as cancer. They may block or suppress multistage carcinogenesis mainly through mechanistic regulation of the myriad of deregulated cellular pathways. Bioactive constituents isolated from different plants have been shownto induce reversal of drug resistance, restoration of apoptosis, inhibition of cell proliferation and stimulation of the immune system, etc. These phytochemicals such as terpenoids, flavonoids, phenolic acids, carotenoids, alkaloids, tannins, anthraquinones, and saponins can be present in any of the plant parts like root, stem, leaves, bark, seed, flower, and fruit which produce a definite physiological response in the organism. Turkish flora is a rich reservoir of wide-ranging bioactive chemicals having premium pharmacological importance. This review provides an overview of the anticancer properties of various Turkish medicinal plant species against different type of cancers via anti-proliferative, genotoxic and cytotoxic effects.

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Biogeographic Distribution of Medicinal and Aromatic Herbs

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Abbas²

2018

Himalayan Phytochemicals

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Medicinal Plants of India: Implications in Modern Medicine

Cited by 4 publications

References 21 publications

Phytochemical profiling, polyphenol composition, and antioxidant activity of the leaf extract from the medicinal halophyteThespesia populneareveal a potential source of bioactive compounds and nutraceuticals

Phytochemical profiling, polyphenol composition, and antioxidant activity of the leaf extract from the medicinal halophyteThespesia populneareveal a potential source of bioactive compounds and nutraceuticals

Anti-proliferative, genotoxic and cytotoxic effects of phytochemicals isolated from Anatolian medicinal plants

Biogeographic Distribution of Medicinal and Aromatic Herbs

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