Abstract

“PROTECTIVE EFFECT OF ULTRA SONIC BATH ASSISTED METHANOL EXTRACT OF LEPIDIUM SATIVUM LINN. SEEDS BY USING CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED NEUROPATHY IN RATS.”

*A.T. Chenna Kesava Rao, B. Priyanka, K. Maheswari, G. Rambabu, J. Vidya Sagar

Abstract

Medicinal Plants & Their Importance A medicinal plant is any plant which, in one or more of its organs, contains substances that can be used for therapeutic purposes, or which are precursors for chemo-pharmaceutical semi-synthesis. When a plant is designated as „medicinal‟, it is implied that the said plant is useful as a drug or therapeutic agent or an active ingredient of a medicinal preparation. Medicinal plants may therefore be defined as a group of plants that possess some special properties or virtues that qualify them as articles of drugs and therapeutic agents, and are used for medicinal purposes. [Bailey, C.J. and Day, C et al. (1989)].

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