@article {1307, title = {Phytoconstituents and Proximate Composition of Clerodendrum Colebrookianum Walp.: A Widely Used Anti High Blood Pressure Medicinal Food Plant in Eastern Himalayas}, journal = {Pharmacognosy Journal}, volume = {12}, year = {2020}, month = {November 2020}, pages = {1534-1540}, type = {Original Article}, chapter = {1534}, abstract = {

Clerodendrum colebrookianum Walp.is a medicinal food plant widely used in the North East India. The herb is used as vegetable as well as medicine to control high blood pressure. Minerals and Proximate compositions in a food is vital for the proper growth and development of a healthy body and secondary metabolites included in diet act as a nutraceuticals thus help in fighting various health problems. The present study was carried out to discourse the Phytoconstituents, Proximate composition and Minerals of the nutraceutical herb, Clerodendrum colebrookianum. Methanol extract of sample was subjected to GCMS to profile the Phyoconstituents while Standard methods including AOAC was followed to study proximate and minerals of the sample under studied. Moisture content was 77.90\%, carbohydrate 4.28\%, 2.36\% crude protein, 4.21\% crude fibre and 0.35\% crude fat respectively. The minerals concentrations are 0.215mg of Fe/g, 0.105mg/g of Mn, 0.0425mg of Cu/g, 0.056mg Zn/g, 2.55mg of Mangnesium/g, 4.3mg of Na/g and 24.5mg of K per gram of sample. A total of eleven compounds are recorded to be useful for high blood pressure problem and as many as other twenty useful phytoconstutuents were recorded from the sample including antioxidant, anti-uric acid formation, anti-tumour, bioabiability of zinc etc. The present study advocates the traditional knowledge on the use of Clerodendrum colebrookianum as a remedy for high blood pressure problem.

}, keywords = {Clerodendrum colebrookianum, Minerals, North East India, Nutraceutical Herb, Phytoconstituents, Proximate}, doi = {10.5530/pj.2020.12.210}, author = {Temin Payum} } @article {741, title = {Chemical Composition and Ethnobotany of Livistona jenkinsiana Griff: An Endangered Thatching Palm Tree of Eastern Himalayas}, journal = {Pharmacognosy Journal}, volume = {10}, year = {2018}, month = {August 2018}, pages = {1202-1207}, type = {Original Article}, chapter = {1202}, abstract = {

Objectives: To study the uses of various parts and cultivation of Livistona jenkinsiana among tribal people of Arunachal Pradesh in addition to study the chemical composition and the related health benefits if any. Methods: Field survey and interview were used for ethnobotany and GCMS was used in the studies of chemical compositions. Results: This study reports numbers of volatile and non-volatile compounds from the fruit of Livistona jenkinsiana with various health benefits. Presence of remarkable high percentage of trehalose sugar is reported in this work from the fruit of L. jenkinsiana. The study also reports various uses of the parts of this palm tree as thatching tree, fencing and house construction. The study also reports need of conservation of this bioculturally important endangered and threatened thatching palm tree. Conclusion: L. jenkinsiana is a bioculturally and economically important endangered thatching palm tree. The fruit could be a source of plant originated fats and trehalose sugar. Fifty percent of compounds present in this fruit are useful in various health problems. There should be further scientific studies in the domains of industrial utility of this underutilized palm tree.

}, keywords = {Biocultural, Ethnobotany, Fruit, Himalayas, Indigenous People, Phytochemical, Thatch, Trehalose}, doi = {xx10.5530/pj.2018.6.206}, author = {Temin Payum} } @article {441, title = {Distribution, Ethnobotany, Pharmacognosy and Phytoconstituents of Coptis teeta Wall.: A Highly Valued and Threatened Medicinal Plant of Eastern Himalayas}, journal = {Pharmacognosy Journal}, volume = {9}, year = {2017}, month = {November 2017}, pages = {s28-s34}, type = {Original Article}, chapter = {s28}, abstract = {

Objectives:\ To study the distribution, traditional knowledge, dose and preparations, phytoconstituents, pharmacognostic characters and to correlate phytoconstituents and the claimed health benefits among the tribal people of Arunachal Pradesh if any, the present study was carried out. Methods: Field survey and interview were used for ethnobotany and protocol given in Shah and Seth (2010), Kakote et. al.,(2012) and Wallis (2011) was followed to study pharmacognostic studies while GC-MS was used in the studies of phytoconstituents. Results: This study reports numbers of volatile and non-volatile compounds from the rhizome of Coptis teeta with high percentage of berberine alkaloids. The study also reports alkaloid deposition at parenchymatous tissues and vascular tissues of rhizome. Phytoconstituents presents in the ethanolic extract of C.teeta cold be related to health problems and phytoconstituents as claimed by tribal people of Arunachal Pradesh. Conclusion: Locally called Mishmi teeta in Arunachal Pradesh, Coptis teeta Wall. is a well-known medicinal plant used among Mishmi and other tribes of Arunachal Pradesh for health problems like loose motion, stomach pain, diarrhoea and malaria. This endemic and threatened medicinal plant contains numbers of biologically active compounds and need in-situ as well as ex-situ conservation.

}, keywords = {Berberine, Eastern Himalayas, Medicinal plant, Mishmi tribe, Phytoconstituents, Threatened}, doi = {10.5530/pj.2017.6s.154}, url = {http://fulltxt.org/article/378}, author = {Temin Payum} } @article {178, title = {GC- MS Analysis of Mussaenda roxburghii Hk.f.: A Folk Food Plant Used Among Tribes Of Arunachal Pradesh, India.}, journal = {Pharmacognosy Journal}, volume = {8}, year = {2016}, month = {June/2016}, pages = {395-398}, type = {Original Article}, chapter = {395}, abstract = {

Introduction: Mussaenda roxhburgii Hk.f. shoot is widely used as folk food among the tribal people of Arunachal Pradesh. This study was carried out to establish the phytoconstituents of Mussaenda roxburghii shoot. Methods: Fresh shoot were collected from Mone forest of East Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh and identified by the corresponding author himself. The samples were shade dried and pulverized to powder using a mechanical grinder. 500 g powder of the sample was soaked in ethanol for 72 hours with intermittent shaking then filtered through Whatmann No. 41 filter paper and concentrated under reduced pressure at 40\°C by using rotary evaporator to obtain a viscous semi solid extract. Gas-Chromatography Mass Specrometry (GC-MS) analysis of the ethanol extracts was carried out in Shimadzu GCMS-QP-2010 plus system. The identification of compounds was performed by comparing their mass spectra with data from NIST 11 (National Institute of Standards and Technology, US) and WILEY 8. Results: The GCMS chromatogram of Mussaenda roxburghii shoot ethanolic extract gave forty nine phytochemical compounds. The most prevailing compounds were hydrocoumarin with 13.6\%, hexadeconoic acid, 2-hexadecen-1-ol, 3, 7, 11, 15 tetramethyl [R-[R-) with 17.52\%, ethyl ester with 6.24\% and Vitamin E with 2.8\%. The study gave some compounds with biological interest like gamma tocopherol, Vitamin E, Neophytadiene, Squalene etc. which have been reported to be Antitumur, Antiinflammatory, Antiaging, antidiabetic, anti-inflammatory, Antipyretic, perfume, pesticide and sunscreen.

}, keywords = {Folk Food, GC-MS, Hydrocoumarin., Mussaenda species, Nutraceuticals, Tribal people}, doi = {10.5530/pj.2016.4.14}, author = {Temin Payum} }