Useful ethnophytomedicinal recipes of angiosperms used against diabetes in South East Asian Countries (India, Pakistan & Sri Lanka)

Pakistan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1333-1358

  Marwat, Sarfaraz Khan ^a   Fazal Ur Rehman, ^a   Khan, Ejaz Ahmad ^a   Khakwani, Abdul Aziz ^a   Ullah, Imdad ^a   Khan, Kaleem Ullah ^b   Khan, Inam Ullah ^a  

^a GOMAL UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Angiosperms; Antidiabetic plants; Recipes; South East Asia

Indexed keywords

ABRUS PRECATORIUS EXTRACT; AEGLE MARMELOS EXTRACT; ANDROGRAPHIS PANICULATA EXTRACT; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; AZADIRACHTA INDICA EXTRACT; BUTEA MONOSPERMA EXTRACT; CATHARANTHUS ROSEUS EXTRACT; CURCUMA LONGA EXTRACT; HERBACEOUS AGENT; MURRAYA KOENIGII EXTRACT; ONION EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABRUS; ACACIA CATECHU; ACACIA NILOTICA; AEGLE MARMELOS; ANDROGRAPHIS LINEATA; ANDROGRAPHIS PANICULATA; ANGIOSPERM; ANTIDIABETIC ACTIVITY; AZADIRACHTA INDICA; BARLEY; BAUHINIA VARIAGATA; BENINCASA HISPIDA; BUTEA MONOSPERMA; CASSIA FISTULA; CATHARANTHUS ROSEUS; CENTELLA ASIATICA; CHICKPEA; CHORISTONEURA OCCIDENTALIS; COCCINIA GRANDIS; COLOCYNTH; COSTUS SPECIOUS; CURCUMA LONGA; CYNODON DACTYLON; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMBLICA OFFICINALIS; FENUGREEK; FICUS BENGHALENSIS; FICUS RACEMOSA; FLOUR; GARLIC; GUAVA; GYMNEMA SYLVESTRE; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; INDIA; IPOMOEA AQUATICA; JUSTICIA ADHATODA; MEDICINAL PLANT; MELIA AZEDARCH; MEMECYLON UMBELLATUM; MIMOSA PUDICA; MOMORDICA CHARANTIA; MOMORDICA DIOICA; MURRAYA KOENIGII; NELUMBO NUCIFERA; OCIMUM TENUIFLORUM; ONION; PAKISTAN; PHYLLANTHUS; PHYLLANTHUS URINARIA; PLANT LEAF; PLANT SEED; PONGAMIA PINNATA; PTEROCARPUS; PTEROCARPUS MARSUPIUM; REVIEW; SALACIA; SALACIA RETICULATA; SCOPARIA DULCIS; SENNA ALATA; SESBANIA; SESBANIA SESBAN; SOLANUM; SOLANUM NIGRAM; SOYBEAN; SRI LANKA; STRYCHNOS; STRYCHNOS POTATORUM; SYZIGIUM CUMINI; TINOSPORA CORDIFOLIA; TRAGIA INVOLUCRATE; WATTAKAKA VOLUBILIS; WITHANIA; WITHANIA COAGULANS; XANTHIUM STRUMARIUM; ZIZIPHUS MAURITIANA; ARTICLE; PHYTOTHERAPY; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

ANGIOSPERMS; DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMANS; INDIA; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; PAKISTAN; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SRI LANKA;

EID: 84907853784     PISSN: 1011601X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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