Pterocarpus marsupium: A valuable medicinal plant in diabetes management.

Pterocarpus marsupium (Roxb.) is large deciduous tree, commonly called as Indian Kino or Malabar Kino, belonging to the family fabaceae (Leguminoceae). The tree is scared with novel antidiabetic properties. Along with as an antidiabetic drug, it is also used as astringent, anti-inflammatory, haemostatic, anthelmintic, in chest pain, body pain and in indigestion, in diabetic anaemia, elephantiasis, erysipelas, urethrorrhea and opthalmopathy etc. Phytochemicaly, many phenolic constituents of which flavonoid comprising major pool, are forming the basis of most pharmacological activities possessed by Pterocarpus marsupium. The present review summarizes the phyto-pharmacological role of this valuable medicinal plant.

Seasonal dynamics in the nutritional and antinutritional status of stem bark of anogeissus latifolia.

Anogeissus latifolia (Roxb.) is an important medicinal plant used as herbal drug in the cardiac diseases management. In the present investigation seasonal variations in the stem bark samples (Apical bark, Middle bark and Mature inner bark) with respect to total reducing sugars, total sugars, amylose, amylopectin, starch, crude fibers, crude protein, total ash value, total polyphenols, water soluble tannins, total flavonoids, total alkaloids, nitrates, and total oxalate. The concentration of constituents except oxalate and total ash was found higher in the apical stem bark than the middle and mature inner bark. The oxalate and total ash were higher in the mature inner bark than the apical stem bark and middle bark samples.