Sutapa Mahata, Saurabh Maru, Shirish Shukla, Arvind Pandey, G Mugesh, Bhudev C Das, Alok C Bharti
BACKGROUND: Bryophyllum pinnata (B. pinnata) is a common medicinal plant used in traditional medicine of India and of other countries for curing various infections, bowel diseases, healing wounds and other ailments. However, its anticancer properties are poorly defined. In view of broad spectrum therapeutic potential of B. pinnata we designed a study to examine anti-cancer and anti-Human Papillomavirus (HPV) activities in its leaf extracts and tried to isolate its active principle. METHODS: A chloroform extract derived from a bulk of botanically well-characterized pulverized B...
March 10, 2012: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine