Two species of the genus Calotropis of family Asclepiadaceae (sub family of Apocynaceae)
viz. Calotropis procera Ait. and Calotropis gigantea (Linn) R. Br. are considered as botanical …

Apocynaceaeis one of the largest angiosperm familieswith numerous medicinal plant
species. Plants of the family Apocynaceae are rich in toxic and medicinal secondary …

Food security and effective medicines continue to be challenging issues for the third world.
Functional plants give us some bio-resources having food and medicinal values. Several …

Food security and medicine have always been challenging issues. Strategic efforts from
1989 include DeFelic's term “Nutraceutical” combining “Nutrition” and “Pharmaceutical” …

Ethnobotanical knowledge plays an important role in therapeutic beneficial by traditional
people of the Yercaud hills, Eastern ghats of the State Tamil Nadu. This current study …

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This research aims to document and evaluate the traditional medical practices and the use
of ethnomedicinal plants by the Kani tribal healers living in Karayar, Tirunelveli district, Tamil …

P. stratiotes is widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions in the world. It is
considered as native to south America (Langeland and Burks 1998). It has a widespread …

Because of lack of hygienic conditions of living and contaminated potable water system, the
rural and urban slum people of Bangladesh suffer in large numbers from gastrointestinal …

Pistia stratiotes L.(Hemsl) A. Grey is commonly known as water lettuce and belongs to the
family Araceae. It is a free-floating hydrophyte with a rosette of obovate to spatulate short …