Abstract

INVITRO ANTI INFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY OF GYMNOSPORIA EMERGINATA

*B. Nirmala Devi, K. Naga Lakshmi and D. Swarnalatha

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Abstract

Medicinal plants have always been considered a healthy source of life for all people. Therapeutically properties of medical plants are very useful in healing various diseases and the advantage of these medicinal plants is being 100% natural. Nowadays people are being bombarded with thousands of unhealthy products, the level of sensibility in front of diseases is very high and that's why the use of medicinal plants can represent the best solution. Since antiquity, man has used plants to treat common infectious diseases and even long before mankind discovered the existence of microbes; the idea that certain plants had healing potential was well accepted.[1] A medicinal plant is any plant which, in one or more of its organs, contains substances that can be used for therapeutic purpose or which are precursors for the synthesis of useful drugs. A number of plants have been used in traditional medicine for many years due to their antimicrobial properties.[2] Specifically, the medicinal value of these plants lies in some chemical substances that produce a definite physiological action on the human or animal body.[3]

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