PHARMACOGNOSY AND PHARMACOLOGY OF NIGELLA SATIVA - A REVIEW
Journal Title: International Research Journal of Pharmacy (IRJP) - Year 2011, Vol 2, Issue 11
Abstract
The importance of natural flora is well known by the scientific community. The medicinal plant gifted by nature have by explored by the humans to find out there respective values in the medical field. Times to time there have been report regarding the medicinal plants having huge possibilities for use. In the above article a similar kind of plant have been described, which have been reported of having many medicinal uses. The plant Nigella sativa have been reported to have significant activity agnist many diseased condition such as pancreatic cancer, asthma, bronchitis, and coughing, antitumor (tumors of the abdomen, eyes, and liver), opioid dependence. The potency of the above plant can be stated with a simple statement that six patent of the use of above plant have been granted for different countries. Various part of the plant has been used in traditional medicine, such as seeds, fruits. The above article is a sincere effort to describe the pharmacology and pharmacognosy of the above important plant.
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Rajsekhar Saha , Kuldeep Bhupendar
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