This book is an attempt to build a comprehensive monograph of three important medicinal plants, Aerva lanata which is referred to as Bhadra, Hedyotis corymbosa as Parpatakah, and Leptadenia reticulata as Jivanti. Ayurvedic texts attribute high medicinal values to these plants and regard them in high esteem. Important parameters such as proximate analysis, phytochemistry, micromorphology, anatomy, powder study, HPTLC fingerprint analysis, isolation and characterization of phytochemicals have been included in this book. Another inportant factor studied is identification of key pharmacognostic...

Diabetes mellitus, a group of metabolic diseases characterized by hyperglycemia, is treated mainly with synthetic drugs which exert serious side effects when taken for a long time. These days dietary measures and traditional herbal therapy such as herbal preparations / agents are used as the preferred antidiabetic agents. Four plants, Cassia alata, Artocarpus heterophyllus, Costus pictus and Bauhinia purpurea Linn.and 3 combinations of plants are studied for their efficacy in antihyperglycemic activity of the extracts in diabetic rats, hypoglycemic activity, effect of the extracts on...