Magnoliopsida Research Articles

A review of pharmacognostical, phytochemical and pharmacological properties of Lagenaria siceraria: A miracle herb

Lagenaria siceraria (Bottle gourd) class Magnoliopsida family Cucurbitaceae is an excellent fruit in the nature consisting of all the essential constituents that are necessary for normal and good health of human beings. Lagenaria siceraria is official in Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia. Traditionally, Lagenaria siceraria fruits had been used as a general tonic, cardiotonic, and cardioprotective drug. In addition, it had also been used as aphrodisiac, diuretic, antidote to certain poisons, scorpion stings, and alternative purgative. Lagenaria siceraria is also used to relieve pain, ulcers and fever. Scientific researches have shown that Lagenaria siceraria possesses anthelmintic, antibacterial, antifungal, immunomodulatory, anti-allergic, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, free radical scavenging, cytotoxic, antihyperlipidemic antidiabetic, hepatoprotective, anxiolytic and memory enhancing properties. In this review article we have tried to provide a detailed survey of the literature on the scientific researches of pharmacognostical, phytochemical and pharmacological properties of this wonderful herbal drug.

Distribution Fitting 12. Sampling Distribution of Compounds Abundance from Plant Species Measured by Instrumentation. Application to Plants Metabolism Classification

A series of ten plant species belonging to Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons class were analyzed in terms of chemical compounds distribution of abundance, starting from the assumption that these distributions should give a picture of similarities and differences between plants metabolism. From a pool of theoretical distributions, log-normal distribution was selected giving the best accuracy with the modeled phenomena and agreement with the observed data. From obtained lognormal distributions statistics a classification were constructed and were compared with the classification based on phylogeny.