Pub Date : 2021-06-14DOI: 10.26452/ijpib.v6i2.1448
Venkatesan K., Murugeswaran R., Mokhtar Alam, Ram Pradap Meena, Pawan Kumar, Mohamed Aslam, Zaheer Ahmed N.
The quantitative ethnobotany deals with the computation of the importance of the plants and vegetation to people. It helps in quantification of qualitative data in the biological and social science. The various quantitative tools in ethnobotany help in the calculation of plant taxon. Ethnobotanical approach provide data which is agreeable to the hypothesis-testing, subsequent statistical validation and comparative analysis. The traditional source of medicinal plants is an important way for daily curative uses in the rural area throughout Kerala. Moreover, among the plant studied habit wise analyzed they are 12 herbs, 13 shrubs, 12 trees and each one of climbing shrub, twining shrub, prostrate shrub, climber. The status of plants are also analyzed and recorded as 26 are common, 14 are rare, 5 are common & Cultivated and 2 are sporadic are described under this study. In this communication, the informations got from the rural inhabitant were compared with the already existing literature. The medicinal plants used by people are arranged alphabetically followed by Botanical name, Family name, Voucher specimen number, Local name, Unani name, Part used, Mode of preparation and Disease cured are discussed. The data were collected randomly from tribal and traditional healers of 85 informants the data were statistically analyzed by using suitable statistical tools such as Use Value (UV), Informant Consensus Factor (ICF), Fidelity Value (FL) and various ranking methods.
{"title":"Quantitative Ethnobotany of Medicinal Plants Used by Indigenous Community in the Munnar Forest Division, Kerala, India","authors":"Venkatesan K., Murugeswaran R., Mokhtar Alam, Ram Pradap Meena, Pawan Kumar, Mohamed Aslam, Zaheer Ahmed N.","doi":"10.26452/ijpib.v6i2.1448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26452/ijpib.v6i2.1448","url":null,"abstract":"The quantitative ethnobotany deals with the computation of the importance of the plants and vegetation to people. It helps in quantification of qualitative data in the biological and social science. The various quantitative tools in ethnobotany help in the calculation of plant taxon. Ethnobotanical approach provide data which is agreeable to the hypothesis-testing, subsequent statistical validation and comparative analysis. The traditional source of medicinal plants is an important way for daily curative uses in the rural area throughout Kerala. Moreover, among the plant studied habit wise analyzed they are 12 herbs, 13 shrubs, 12 trees and each one of climbing shrub, twining shrub, prostrate shrub, climber. The status of plants are also analyzed and recorded as 26 are common, 14 are rare, 5 are common & Cultivated and 2 are sporadic are described under this study. In this communication, the informations got from the rural inhabitant were compared with the already existing literature. The medicinal plants used by people are arranged alphabetically followed by Botanical name, Family name, Voucher specimen number, Local name, Unani name, Part used, Mode of preparation and Disease cured are discussed. The data were collected randomly from tribal and traditional healers of 85 informants the data were statistically analyzed by using suitable statistical tools such as Use Value (UV), Informant Consensus Factor (ICF), Fidelity Value (FL) and various ranking methods.","PeriodicalId":170261,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Pharmacometrics and Integrated Biosciences","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128922766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-03-27DOI: 10.26452/IJPIB.V6I1.1408
Tarek M. Esmael, Samiha Fawzy, Hany Hosny, O. Rashed, Anas Alnasser, T. A. Anazi, Arulanantham Zechariah Jebakumar
Emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics take immediate care of patients who are injured or unhealthy and ensure their transportation to or from the hospital. Almost 10% of all European Union employees work in health and social care systems, and a considerable number of them work in hospitals. The same is the case in Saudi Arabia, where the health care system is well developed and vibrant. With such a large workforce working in an environment where they can face accidents and injuries, accidents do happen. According to the International Labor Organization, there are 270 million occupational accidents causing 2 million deaths annually. The study was conducted at King Fahd Military Complex, Dhahran and Red Crescent. The study was aimed to identify the nature, frequency and causes of work-related injuries among paramedical staff. The present is among the largest studies of WRIs in EMTs in Saudi Arabia. In this study, we found a very high rate of verbal and physical violence against healthcare personnel. Physical violence negatively affects levels of satisfaction in workers. Studies indicate that exposure to both chronic and critical incident stressors increases the risk of EMS personnel developing post-traumatic stress reactions. The risk of WRIs to paramedics and EMTs is obviously high. The most common injuries were verbal/ physical violence, needle stick injuries and motor vehicle accidents. The most common cause for these WRIs was carelessness on part of EMTs.
{"title":"Work related injuries sustained by emergency medical technicians and paramedics in Saudi Arabia","authors":"Tarek M. Esmael, Samiha Fawzy, Hany Hosny, O. Rashed, Anas Alnasser, T. A. Anazi, Arulanantham Zechariah Jebakumar","doi":"10.26452/IJPIB.V6I1.1408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26452/IJPIB.V6I1.1408","url":null,"abstract":"Emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics take immediate care of patients who are injured or unhealthy and ensure their transportation to or from the hospital. Almost 10% of all European Union employees work in health and social care systems, and a considerable number of them work in hospitals. The same is the case in Saudi Arabia, where the health care system is well developed and vibrant. With such a large workforce working in an environment where they can face accidents and injuries, accidents do happen. According to the International Labor Organization, there are 270 million occupational accidents causing 2 million deaths annually. The study was conducted at King Fahd Military Complex, Dhahran and Red Crescent. The study was aimed to identify the nature, frequency and causes of work-related injuries among paramedical staff. The present is among the largest studies of WRIs in EMTs in Saudi Arabia. In this study, we found a very high rate of verbal and physical violence against healthcare personnel. Physical violence negatively affects levels of satisfaction in workers. Studies indicate that exposure to both chronic and critical incident stressors increases the risk of EMS personnel developing post-traumatic stress reactions. The risk of WRIs to paramedics and EMTs is obviously high. The most common injuries were verbal/ physical violence, needle stick injuries and motor vehicle accidents. The most common cause for these WRIs was carelessness on part of EMTs.","PeriodicalId":170261,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Pharmacometrics and Integrated Biosciences","volume":"66 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132790945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-03-11DOI: 10.26452/IJPIB.V6I1.1405
N. Deepa, K. Madhivadhani, M. Hari, N. Prakash, S. Lohith, C. Prabakaran
The process of inflammation is often triggered by the stimulus from outside sources that usally cause harm to human skin and tissues. It is a response of the body that protects itself from external agents but when it is excess and built up in the body it causes some worsening symptoms. Synthetic drugs usually cause side effects and adverse effects. Herbs are normally known to combat inflammations and fight free radicals. The antioxidants present in the herbs causes the preventive action of the oxidation and causes lowering of the inflammation. There were also investigations performed on the plant to prove the above activities. Among all the plants that are available in nature lamiaceae members, plants like Molucella laevis, Nepeta cataria, Vitex agnus, Origanum dictamnus and Mentha piperata were considered as major medicinal plants with a lot of medical applications. 5 members of lamiaceae were selected to study and compare the anti-inflammatory activity and the data suggests all the plants have better activity and out of all the Mentha extract showed a significantly better activity compared to the standard drug.
{"title":"Comparison of anti-inflammatory activity of various species of lamiaceae","authors":"N. Deepa, K. Madhivadhani, M. Hari, N. Prakash, S. Lohith, C. Prabakaran","doi":"10.26452/IJPIB.V6I1.1405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26452/IJPIB.V6I1.1405","url":null,"abstract":"The process of inflammation is often triggered by the stimulus from outside sources that usally cause harm to human skin and tissues. It is a response of the body that protects itself from external agents but when it is excess and built up in the body it causes some worsening symptoms. Synthetic drugs usually cause side effects and adverse effects. Herbs are normally known to combat inflammations and fight free radicals. The antioxidants present in the herbs causes the preventive action of the oxidation and causes lowering of the inflammation. There were also investigations performed on the plant to prove the above activities. Among all the plants that are available in nature lamiaceae members, plants like Molucella laevis, Nepeta cataria, Vitex agnus, Origanum dictamnus and Mentha piperata were considered as major medicinal plants with a lot of medical applications. 5 members of lamiaceae were selected to study and compare the anti-inflammatory activity and the data suggests all the plants have better activity and out of all the Mentha extract showed a significantly better activity compared to the standard drug.","PeriodicalId":170261,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Pharmacometrics and Integrated Biosciences","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116722031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-07-06DOI: 10.26452/ijpib.v5i2.1217
K. Nithyakalyani
Pseudarthria viscida L. Wight & Arnott belongs to family Leguminosae commonly called as Salaparni is an essential component of potent Ayurvedic formulations. It has been screened for antioxidant, cytotoxic, antidiabetic & anti-diarrhoeal activity. Currently, there is no enough scientific evidence or literary resources on the anti-inflammatory & antipyretic activity of this plant. Therefore, this study was aimed at exploring P.viscida for its therapeutic potentials as anti-inflammatory & antipyretic agent. A research was conducted to evaluate the anti-inflammatory property ( inflammation-induced to rat paw oedema by carrageenan & cotton pellet granuloma) & antipyretic (Pyrexia induced by brewer’s yeast) activities of petroleum ether extract of Pseudarthria viscida (PEPV) stems & roots in albino rats. Pre-treatment of the animals with the plant extract (100 & 200 mg/kg, p.o.) has prevented the inflammation produced evident by the change in volume of paw oedema which is proportional to the dose. A maximum effect was seen at 200 mg/kg, which was competent to Indomethacin (10 mg/kg, i.p). The antipyretic effect of PEPV (100 & 200 mg/kg, p.o.), measured as percentage lowering in body heat was compared with st&ard, Paracetamol (150 mg/kg, p.o.). The anti-inflammatory & antipyretic activities showed dose-related response at 100 mg/kg & 200 mg/kg, when compared to the st&ard. This current research investigated & advocates the anti pyretic property & anti-inflammatory potency of Pseudarthria viscida, and it supports the application of the plant in medicine as per ethnopharmacology.
{"title":"Phytochemical and pharmacological investigations of Pseudarthria viscida (L.) Wight & Arnott","authors":"K. Nithyakalyani","doi":"10.26452/ijpib.v5i2.1217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26452/ijpib.v5i2.1217","url":null,"abstract":"Pseudarthria viscida L. Wight & Arnott belongs to family Leguminosae commonly called as Salaparni is an essential component of potent Ayurvedic formulations. It has been screened for antioxidant, cytotoxic, antidiabetic & anti-diarrhoeal activity. Currently, there is no enough scientific evidence or literary resources on the anti-inflammatory & antipyretic activity of this plant. Therefore, this study was aimed at exploring P.viscida for its therapeutic potentials as anti-inflammatory & antipyretic agent. A research was conducted to evaluate the anti-inflammatory property ( inflammation-induced to rat paw oedema by carrageenan & cotton pellet granuloma) & antipyretic (Pyrexia induced by brewer’s yeast) activities of petroleum ether extract of Pseudarthria viscida (PEPV) stems & roots in albino rats. Pre-treatment of the animals with the plant extract (100 & 200 mg/kg, p.o.) has prevented the inflammation produced evident by the change in volume of paw oedema which is proportional to the dose. A maximum effect was seen at 200 mg/kg, which was competent to Indomethacin (10 mg/kg, i.p). The antipyretic effect of PEPV (100 & 200 mg/kg, p.o.), measured as percentage lowering in body heat was compared with st&ard, Paracetamol (150 mg/kg, p.o.). The anti-inflammatory & antipyretic activities showed dose-related response at 100 mg/kg & 200 mg/kg, when compared to the st&ard. This current research investigated & advocates the anti pyretic property & anti-inflammatory potency of Pseudarthria viscida, and it supports the application of the plant in medicine as per ethnopharmacology. ","PeriodicalId":170261,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Pharmacometrics and Integrated Biosciences","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134338245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-07-06DOI: 10.26452/ijpib.v3i1.1216
A. Saravanakumar, R. Gandhimathi
Polygonum glabrum is being used in traditional and folklore medicine to treat pneumonia and jaundice. Plant roots are used in ayurvedic preparations to treat fever and colic. The leaves are used as diuretic agents and process vermifuge action. Plant decoction is also used in the treatment of Rheumatism. Besides having many uses and folklore claims, herbal medicines are to be thoroughly investigated for their toxicity also. Therefore this work is being carried out to examine the toxicity of the drug and established dose is safe to use in the clinical stage. The current research studied the acute and chronic toxicity of Polygonum glabrum root extract in rats. It is proved that there was no change in any parameter tested both in acute and chronic toxicity, which means the extract is safe and non-toxic at the dose of 2g/kg also.
{"title":"Acute and chronic toxicity studies on Polygonum glabrum in experimental animals","authors":"A. Saravanakumar, R. Gandhimathi","doi":"10.26452/ijpib.v3i1.1216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26452/ijpib.v3i1.1216","url":null,"abstract":"Polygonum glabrum is being used in traditional and folklore medicine to treat pneumonia and jaundice. Plant roots are used in ayurvedic preparations to treat fever and colic. The leaves are used as diuretic agents and process vermifuge action. Plant decoction is also used in the treatment of Rheumatism. Besides having many uses and folklore claims, herbal medicines are to be thoroughly investigated for their toxicity also. Therefore this work is being carried out to examine the toxicity of the drug and established dose is safe to use in the clinical stage. The current research studied the acute and chronic toxicity of Polygonum glabrum root extract in rats. It is proved that there was no change in any parameter tested both in acute and chronic toxicity, which means the extract is safe and non-toxic at the dose of 2g/kg also.","PeriodicalId":170261,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Pharmacometrics and Integrated Biosciences","volume":"237 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116612183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-07-01DOI: 10.26452/ijpib.v5i1.1191
R. Jubilee, J. Kaviarasu, I. Kishore, S. Keerthana, N. Karthikayan, S. Karthi
Abutilon indicum belongs to the family Malvaceae is known as Indian mallow commonly. The plant was traditionally claimed to possess many medicinal properties and was used in folklore and traditional system s of medicine like Ayurveda. It contains various chemical constituents like flavonoids, phenols, sterols, tannins etc. and was scientifically investigated for many activities like an immune stimulant, dieresis, anti-epileptic, anti-ulcer and anti-parasitic activities. This article reviews the research work that was performed on the plant to publish its phytochemistry, Pharmacognosy and Pharmacological profile of the plant.
{"title":"Phytochemistry, pharmacognosy and pharmacological profile of Abutilon indicum","authors":"R. Jubilee, J. Kaviarasu, I. Kishore, S. Keerthana, N. Karthikayan, S. Karthi","doi":"10.26452/ijpib.v5i1.1191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26452/ijpib.v5i1.1191","url":null,"abstract":"Abutilon indicum belongs to the family Malvaceae is known as Indian mallow commonly. The plant was traditionally claimed to possess many medicinal properties and was used in folklore and traditional system s of medicine like Ayurveda. It contains various chemical constituents like flavonoids, phenols, sterols, tannins etc. and was scientifically investigated for many activities like an immune stimulant, dieresis, anti-epileptic, anti-ulcer and anti-parasitic activities. This article reviews the research work that was performed on the plant to publish its phytochemistry, Pharmacognosy and Pharmacological profile of the plant.","PeriodicalId":170261,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Pharmacometrics and Integrated Biosciences","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124909927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-12-12DOI: 10.26452/ijpib.v3i2.1386
Someswar Deb, Thejaswini Karanth, Pranathi R, Ajoy Krishnamurthy
Stroke remains a chief public fitness hassle in growing international locations. Routine investigation performed to pick out Stroke is imaging, that is luxurious and no longer easy. So we want an ordinary simple take a look at to predict stroke. To have a look at the association between platelet indices, platelet matter and Ischemic Thrombotic stroke. Platelets are small discoid cell factors which can be heterogeneous with admire to size, density, age and metabolic characteristic. The ordinary person human has a platelet be counted among 1—five-four lakhs/mm3. Platelet indices or platelet quantity parameters mainly include Mean Platelet Volume (MPV), Platelet Distribution Width (PDW) and Plateletcrit (PCT). Automated mobile counters have made the platelet matter and platelet volume indices - MPV, PDW and PLCR mechanically to be had in most scientific laboratories. The MPV shows the average length of the platelets and its ordinary extent is 7.4 -10.4fl. According to current research, large platelets are enzymatically and metabolically extra active and have better thrombotic potential compared with smaller ones. Hence individuals with high MPV are said to be at danger for thrombotic activities. The PDW is a measure of platelet anisocytosis. The PCT is the ratio of the volume of platelet cells to the entire amount of blood. Platelets and their interest have a Svital role inside the pathogenesis of coronary heart disorder. Some research has proven that decreases in platelet are counted can be a characteristic of the prothrombotic state in coronary heart ailment. This can be a result of platelet consumption in the acute segment of clot formation and next thrombosis.
{"title":"Novel Concepts on Risk Factors Among Patients with Ischemic Stroke","authors":"Someswar Deb, Thejaswini Karanth, Pranathi R, Ajoy Krishnamurthy","doi":"10.26452/ijpib.v3i2.1386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26452/ijpib.v3i2.1386","url":null,"abstract":"Stroke remains a chief public fitness hassle in growing international locations. Routine investigation performed to pick out Stroke is imaging, that is luxurious and no longer easy. So we want an ordinary simple take a look at to predict stroke. To have a look at the association between platelet indices, platelet matter and Ischemic Thrombotic stroke. Platelets are small discoid cell factors which can be heterogeneous with admire to size, density, age and metabolic characteristic. The ordinary person human has a platelet be counted among 1—five-four lakhs/mm3. Platelet indices or platelet quantity parameters mainly include Mean Platelet Volume (MPV), Platelet Distribution Width (PDW) and Plateletcrit (PCT). Automated mobile counters have made the platelet matter and platelet volume indices - MPV, PDW and PLCR mechanically to be had in most scientific laboratories. The MPV shows the average length of the platelets and its ordinary extent is 7.4 -10.4fl. According to current research, large platelets are enzymatically and metabolically extra active and have better thrombotic potential compared with smaller ones. Hence individuals with high MPV are said to be at danger for thrombotic activities. The PDW is a measure of platelet anisocytosis. The PCT is the ratio of the volume of platelet cells to the entire amount of blood. Platelets and their interest have a Svital role inside the pathogenesis of coronary heart disorder. Some research has proven that decreases in platelet are counted can be a characteristic of the prothrombotic state in coronary heart ailment. This can be a result of platelet consumption in the acute segment of clot formation and next thrombosis.","PeriodicalId":170261,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Pharmacometrics and Integrated Biosciences","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128067175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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