TY - BOOK TI - Recent progress in medicinal plants SN - 0965603857 (series ISBN) U1 - 615.321 PY - 2006/// CY - Houston PB - Studium Press LCC KW - Medicinal plants KW - Materia medica N1 - 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) 1 \ 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) ER -