Synergistic depressant activity of Amorphophallus paeoniifolius in Swiss albino mice

Morphological variability in 17 wild elephant foot yam (Amorphophallus paeoniifolius) collections from southwest India

“…The corm extract applied externally as an irritant to treat acute rheumatism, administered internally in the treatment of dysentery, diarrhoea, piles, hemorrhoids and in the formulation of indigenous medicines to cure inflammatory conditions and ophthalmia (Drury 1873;Watt 1889;Bala et al 2007;Purwal et al 2011). The wild form is having emmenagogue, antibacterial properties and the roots extracts are used to cure abdominal colic, elephantiasis, skin and blood diseases, fistula, glandular swellings in the neck, urinary diseases and dropsy and has depressant action on central nervous system (Jayaweera 1981;Dey et al 2011). The crushed seed relieves tooth ache and the seed paste applied to relieve rheumatic swellings (Anonymous 1998).…”

“…Sivad., commonly called elephant foot yam, with smooth bright green petiole with white blotches and leaflet bases not decurrent to junction of the three main petiolules and a round corm with or without very small cormels. The corms, young petiole (Dey 1896;Raghu et al 1999) and unopened inflorescence of this cultivated form are used as vegetable. Elephant foot yam is a rich source of carbohydrate, protein, minerals like calcium, iron, phosphorous, vitamin A, B, C, flavanoids, and fibre (Kay 1987;Shilpi et al 2005).…”

Type- II delayed hypersensitivity reaction by processed elephant foot yam (Amorphophallus paeoniifolius)

“…1,2 Suweg contains high percentages of flavonoids and alkaloids which accounts for its antimicrobial activity along with its antifungal and antihelminthic effects. 3 Yuzammi et al calculated the nutrient percentages in suweg of Java. It was found to have highest carbohydrates and proteins content with lowest fat concentration.…”

Protective effect of Amorphophallus campanulatus tuber extracts against H2O2induced oxidative damage in human erythrocytes and leucocytes

“…[22][23][24] A. campanulatus has been reported for its potential actions such as hepatoprotective, [25][26][27][28] antioxidant, [27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35] antitumor, [35] analgesic, [36][37][38] in-vitro cytotoxic, antibacterial, antifungal, [39][40][41][42][43] anthelmintics, [44,45] anti-inflammatory, [38,46] curative effect, [47] gastro protective, [48,49] antidiarrhoeal, [50] immunomodulatory, [51] central nervous system activities. [52][53][54] From plant mainly isolated quercetin, [25] 3,5-diacetyltambulin, [40] amblyone, [41] salviasperanol. [42] Moreover, total polyphenols, flavonoids and tannin contents from the present study extracts were also estimated.…”