2. Medicinal plants and herbs The term "medicinal" as applied to a plant indicates that it contains a substance or substances which modulate beneficially the physiology of sick mammals, and man has used it for healthful purpose [16]. Medicinal plants were described by Farnsworth and Soejarto as: "all higher plants with medicinal effects ...
Abstract. Natural antioxidants are widely distributed in food and medicinal plants. These natural antioxidants, especially polyphenols and carotenoids, exhibit a wide range of biological effects, including anti-inflammatory, anti-aging, anti-atherosclerosis and anticancer. The effective extraction and proper assessment of antioxidants from food ...
Conventional techniques for the extraction of active constituents are time and solvent consuming, thermally unsafe and the analysis of numerous constituents in plant material is limited by the ...
Phenolic acids constitute a group of potentially immunostimulating compounds. They occur in all medicinal plants and are widely used in phytotherapy and foods of plant origin. In recent years ...
Nature has always been, and still is, a source of foods and ingredients that are beneficial to human health. Nowadays, plant extracts are increasingly becoming important additives in the food industry due to their content in bioactive compounds such as polyphenols [ 1] and carotenoids [ 2 ], which have antimicrobial and antioxidant activity ...
extraction in medicinal plant of gervais . China Heavy Industry is an import-export joint-stock company that specializes in the production of large and medium-sized broken, sand-making and milling equipments, research, production, and sales.It is committed to providing customers with integrated solutions.More than 10 series and dozens of …
Abstract. The extraction of raw plant material is an initial stage in the preparation of herbal medicinal products (HMP). In this chapter, specific factors playing …
Medicinal Plant Extraction. Plant succus prepared from ~200 g fresh plant leaves was evaporated to dryness and dissolved in 100 mL of methanol (MeOH) overnight. Extracts (50 mL) were then transferred to clean vessels, evaporated to dryness, and redissolved in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) to yield a final concentration of …
Medicinal plants incorporate herbs, herbal materials, and items that contain various pieces of plants or other plant materials that have traditionally been used to combat health disorders . Essential oils and herbal extracts have antifungal properties because their phenolic groups act as the primary antimicrobial bioactive compound [ 138, 139 ...
Plant-derived phytochemicals have recently drawn interest in the prevention and treatment of diabetes mellitus (DM). The seeds of Moringa oleifera Lam. are widely used in food and herbal medicine for their health-promoting properties against various diseases, including DM, but many of their effective constituents are still unknown. In this study, 6 new …
Traditional extraction methods such as maceration and percolation are currently widely used in pharmaceutical technology. Maceration consists of soaking the …
Research Paper Topics for Medicinal Plants A medicinal plant is a plant that is used with the intention of maintaining health, to be administered for a specific condition, or both, whether in modern medicine or in traditional medicine. The Food and Agriculture Organization estimated in 2002 that over 50,000 medicinal plants are used across the …
This chapter aims to present, describe, and compare extraction procedures of bioactive compounds from herbs and medicinal plants as part of phytochemical and/or biological investigations present specific challenges. Human beings have relied on herbs and medicinal plants as sources of food and remedy from time immemorial. Bioactive …
Microwave-assisted extraction (MAE) is an innovative and effective method to extract compounds from different plants of agronomic, medicinal, nutritional, or cosmetic interest. This technique is ...
The plant extracts obtained are ready for use as a medicinal agent in the form of dried powder or fluid extracts, and these may be further processed to be incorporated in dosage form such as ...
The research on medicinal plants began with extraction processes, which are crucial to the extraction outcomes (such as yield and phytochemical content) as well …
A comparative study on the antimicrobial properties of extracts from medicinal plants obtained by two different methods was carried out. The screening of the antimicrobial activity of extracts from six plants was conducted by a disc diffusion test against Gram-positive, -negative and fungal organisms.
The effective extraction and proper assessment of antioxidants from food and medicinal plants are crucial to explore the potential antioxidant sources and promote the application in functional ...
Many medicinal plants have been utilized for centuries despite the lack of scientific evidence of their therapeutic effects. This study evaluated the phytochemical and dual biological profiling, namely, antibacterial and cytotoxic properties, of three plant species, namely, Tribulus terrestris L., Typha domingensis Pers., and Ricinus communis …
This review article presents an analysis of various aspects of producing antimicrobial finishings, the microorganisms, their mechanism of attachment to natural …
Preparation of medicinal plants for experimental purposes is an initial step and key in achieving quality research outcome. It involves extraction and determination of quality and quantity of ...
Extraction refers to the process of obtaining an herb's medicinal constituents by using an appropriate solvent, such as grain alcohol or glycerine, to get them out of the plant. …
3.6 Solid-Phase Extraction. Solid-phase extraction (SPE) is a sample preparation technique where compounds in a liquid mixture are separated from each other based on chemical and physical characteristics. The most common SPE format consists of a syringe cartridge that contains 50 mg to 20 g of stationary phase [ 66 ].
Commonly used methods in the extraction of medicinal plants (i) Maceration. This is an extraction procedure in which coarsely powdered drug material, either leaves or stem bark or root bark, is placed inside a container; the menstruum is …
Currently, extraction involves separating medicinally active molecular components of plant tissues from the inert components by using traditional solvent …
Screening of cytotoxic effects of plant extracts on different cancer cell lines. Six different cancer cell lines were treated with 4 mg/mL leaf or seed extracts for 72 hr to distinguish the effectiveness of each part of the plant on cytotoxicity ( Figure 1 ). The results indicated that A. absinthium extracts showed toxicity between 40% and 87% ...
Maceration is one of the conventional extraction methods. Maceration consists of soaking the required amount of medicinal plant raw material in a maceration tank with a solvent at room temperature for seven days with periodic stirring. The resulting extract is poured from the tank. The plant material is pressed.
Research on medicinal plants begins with the preextraction and the extraction procedures, which are essential steps in the processing of the bioactive components from the plant materials. At the level of small manufacturing enterprises or in the small research settings, the conventionally applied methods of extraction are Soxhlet and Maceration.
1. Introduction. Medicinal plants have been a vital source of both curative and preventive medical therapy preparations for human beings, which also has been used for the extraction of important bioactive compounds [1,2,3].It is estimated that almost 80% of the world's total population, regularly, depends on traditional medicine and products …
extraction in medicinal plant of gervais. The study on medicinal plants starts with extraction procedures that play a critical role in the extraction outcomes and the consequent assays Hence, this chapter aims to provide an . …