Pharmacological Actions of Cuscuta reflexa

Free radical scavenging and hepatoprotective activity of jigrine against galactosamine induced hepatopathy in rats

“…Few studies are reported for its formulation (Najmi et al, 2002), safety evaluation (Valecha et al, 1990), mechanism of hepatoprotective action (Vivek et al, 1994;Karunakar et al, 1997a;Aftab et al, 1999) and anti-inflammatory activity (Karunakar et al, 1997b). Hepatoprotective and anti-inflammatory effects of some of the individual ingredients of jigrine are also reported in literature (Jindal et al, 1975;Sadique et al, 1987;Chawla et al, 1992;Gilani and Aftab, 1992;Gilani et al, 1993;Reddy et al, 1993;Gilani and Janbaz, 1994;Pandey et al, 1994;Sultana et al, 1995;Zafar and Ali, 1998).…”

Cholinergic Action of Crude Saponins from astanospermum australe

“…These experiments were carried out by the method previously used in our laboratory (Gilani, 1989: Gilani andAftab, 1992).…”

Anti-cancer potential of South Asian plants

“…Another study reported that water extract of C. reflexa induced apoptosis in Hep3B cells through the up-regulation of pro-apoptotic p53, Bax and down regulation of anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 and survivin 41 . The phyto-chemical constituents isolated from C. reflexa include cuscutin, amarbelin, β-sterol, stigmasterol, kaempferol, dulcitol, myricetin, quercetin, coumarin and oleanolic acid, among which, stigmasterol, kaempferol, myricetin, and quercetin are known to have anti-cancer activity 42 .…”