Jegadeesh, S (2014) Appraisal of Ancient Insight Leading to Modern on Trichosanthes Cucumerina Linn Leaves offers Immense Scope to Improve R & D Landscape of Cardio Protection and Wound Healing. Masters thesis, College of Pharmacy, Madurai Medical College, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India..
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Plants have been used in treating human diseases for thousands of years. Some thousands of years ago, it appears man valued herbs as medicinal agents; this conclusion is based on a grave in Iran in which pollen grains of eight medicinal plants were found. One of these allegedly ancient medicinal herbs, yarrow, is discussed in this work as a modern medicinal plant. The present study highlights the pharmacognostical, phytochemical and potential cardioprotective action against lactose induced arrrthymic heart of D.magna, more effective therapeutically comparable to the synthetic counterpart, without toxicity of the ethyl acetate extract of the leaves of Trichosanthes cucumerina Linn belonging to the family Cucurbitaceae, a widely, easily available edible plant. Ethno medical information revealed that it was used in various ailments for long time all over the world. Traditional uses includes wide panel of disease. Diabetes, wound, skin diseases like dermatitis, alopecia, liver congestion etc., and used as antiinflammatroy, cardiotonic, antipyretic, anthelmintic, diuretic etc. So it was also investigated for ex vivo wound healing activity to provide scientific grounds of its ethno medical claims
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Trichosanthes; Cucumerina; Linn Leaves |
| Subjects: | PHARMACY > Pharmacognosy |
| Depositing User: | Ravindran C |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Jul 2017 07:57 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Jul 2017 07:57 |
| URI: | http://repository-tnmgrmu.ac.in/id/eprint/1885 |
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