“…Lipschitz (Asteraceae), commonly known as costus or kuth, is a valuable medicinal herb from North West Himalaya. The species is well known for its extensive use in several indigenous systems of medicine, such as Ayurveda, Unani, Sidha, Tibetan and Chinese, as anodyne, antiarthritic, antiseptic, aphrodisiac, carminative, expectorant and vermifuge (Chevallier, 1996;Chauhan, 1999;Madhuri et al, 2012). Diverse pharmacological studies have convincingly established its anti-inflammatory (Gokhale et al, 2002), anticancer (Ko et al, 2005), hepatoprotective (Chen et al, 1995), antiulcer (Mitra et al, 1996), hypoglycemic (Chaturvedi et al, 1995) and antimicrobial (Yu et al, 2007) effects, providing the required support to the rationale behind its traditional uses.…”