Recent progress in medicinal plants. J.N. Govil, former principal scientist, Division of Genetics, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India, V.K. Singh, former deputy director (botany), Central Council for Research in Unani Medicine (Dept. of AYUSH, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare), India. C Arunachalam (Dept. of AYUSH, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare)

Includes author index and subject index.

1. TraditionalKnowledge and Indigenous Uses
ofTribal MedicinalResources in India—A Review
Nilanjana Das and P.B.S. Bhadoria (India)
2. Ecballium elaterium (L.) A. Rich.: In vitro Regeneration 49
and the Production of Cucurbitacins in Culture
E. Attard (Malta)
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Effect ofOral Administration ofAloe 73
barbadensis Miller Juice on Selected
Biochemical Parameters ofRat Liver and Kidney
A.AdesokanAbdulfatai, A.AkanjiMusbau,
A. Balogun Elizabeth and Ademola Aderibigbe (Nigeria)
4, Psidium sartorianum (O. Berg) Nied., An 81
Indigenous Plant to Mexico, from Biology to
Biological Activity
F. Delgado-vargas, S.P. DIaz-camacho,
G. Salazar-zamora,M.J. Uribe-beltranand R. Vega-aviNa (Mexico)
6.
Antileishmanial Natural Products
I.P. Singh, U.R. Lal, H.S. Bodiwala,
R.C. Mahajan and K.K. Bhutani (India)
Antioxidant Properties and Photoactivity of 181
Hydroxyanthraquinone {Aloe uera-derivate)
Franklin Vargas, Carlos Rivas, Yrene DIaz, KarlaCarbonell,
LilianaPadr6n,Tamara Zoltan,GermAn Fraile,
Mait VelAsquez, Fernando Ruette and Lourdes Ribas (Venezuela)
Antioxidant Properties and Health Benefits ofTomato
Fiiancesco Serio, OsmanAyala, Anna Bonasia
AND PlETRO SaNTAMARIA (ItALY)
Correlation Between Phenolic Content and in vitro
Antioxidant Activities of Orthosiphon stamineus
Leaf Extracts Using Principal ComponentAnalysis
A.AkowuahGabriel and Ismail Zhari (Malaysia)
Traditional Knowledge and Indigenous Uses:
Ethnobotanical Leads to Drug Discovery
J.M. Mcrae, Qi Yang, R.J. Crawford,
AND A. Palombo Enzo (Australia)
Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitory
Activity in Extracts and
Compoundsfrom Flowering Plants
Peter J. Houghton and Yuhao Ren (UK)
Pharmacognostical Standardization ofGallsof
Mayaphal(Quercus infectoria Oliv.)—^A
Multiaction Drug ofIndian Systems ofMedicine
Shamima Hashmi, M.A. Qasim, S.ArfeenandV.K. Singh (India)
Phytochemical Evaluation ofChyavanprash
Milind S. Bagul and M. Rajani (India)
Effect ofTerminalia catappa Seed Meal-based
Diet on the Alkaline and Acid Phosphatase
Activities of Some Selected Rat Tissues
O. Nasiru Muhammad, B. Oyelola Oloyede
AND M. Toyin Yakubu (Nigeria)
Phytochemical Study ofFoeniculum vulgare Mill.—
A Mediterranean Medicinal Plant
Carles Codina, Irene Parejo,
Jaume Bastida and Francesc Viladomat (Spain)
Traditional Medicinal Plants of Kendrapara
District, Orissa, India
R.D. Girach, V.K. Singh andAminuddin (India)
Evaluation of Diuretic Activity of Six Plants Used
for the Treatment of Urinary Diseases in Mexico
Estela Melendez, Osvaldo Cooley
AND Miroshlava RamIrez (Mexico)
The Potential Antibacterial and Antifungal
Activities of the Leaves oiMitracarpus scaber
Zucc. (Rubiaceae)
R.K. CiMANGA, K. Kambu, L.Tona, J. Totte,
L.Pieters and a.J. Vlietinck (Belgium, Congo)
Herbal Plant Momordica charantia
and its Implications in Diabetes Mellitus
SURESH ChAWRAI AND RaHUL JaIN (IndIA)
Biological Effects of Croton lechleri-A
Folk Medicinal Plant from South America
Jenifer Saffi, Renato Moreira Rosa,
JoAo A. P. Henriques and Mirian Salvador (Brazil)
The Active Compounds from Hyperici herha:
Traditional versus Modern Knowledge
Beatrice Mihaela Maori, Gheorghe Stoian
AND Maru-luiza Flonta (Romania)
Haematological Evaluation ofAqueous
Extract of Tithonia'diversifolia in Wistar Rats
B.V. OwOYELE, S.A. JiMOH, A.O. Ogunrombi,
E.A. Balogun and A.O. Soladoye (Nigeria)
Acanthopanax senticosus Harms Provides
Protective Effect in Rat Model of
Parkinson's Disease
Takahiko Fujikawa, Akihide Shimada,
Chiai Tanaka and Kunio Nakashima (Japan)
LeafAnatomical Characters of
Stachys byzantina C. Koch, Lamiaceae
M.R. Duarte and F.O.S. Santos (Brazil)
Anti-Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Activity ofPeruvian Plant Extracts Using a Rapid,
Inexpensive Colorimetric Assay
Rosario Rojas, Luz Caviedes, Olga Lock
AND Robert H. Oilman (Peru)
Antimicrobial Effects ofAqueous and Etbanolic
Fractions of Some Local Spices—Ocimum
gratissimum and Xylopia aethiopica
I.I. Ijeh and O.D. Omodamiro (Nigeria)
Comparative Investigations ofAntimicrobial
Activities and Compositions ofVarious Aroma
Samples-A Short Review
Leopold Jirovetz, Gerhard Buchbauer, Zapriana Denkova,
Albena Stoyanova, Ivan Murgov, Erich Schmidt
AND Margit Geissler (Austria, Bulgaria, Germany)
Analgesics and Antipyretic
Activities of Ethanolic Extract of
Psidium guajaua in Rats
B.V. OwoYELE,T.O. Jegede
AND A.O. SOLADOYE (NiGERIA)
Influence of Sowing Dates on Growth, Seed
Yield and Active Substances of
Foeniculum vulgare cv. soroksari
R. Omidbaigiand K. Sadrai (Iran)
In vitro Regeneration ofSalacia
beddomei via Callusing from
Cultured Stem Explants
M.A Deepa and V. Narmatha Bai (India)
Pharmacological Activities of Three
Ethnomedicines of Little Andaman
Debprasad Chattopadhyay, G. Arunachalam,
Asit B. Mandal and S.K. Bhattacharya (India)