Ravi Y, Irene Vethamoni Periyanadar, Shailendra Nath Saxena, Raveendran Muthurajan, Velmurugan Sundararajan, Santhanakrishnan Vichangal Pridiuldi, Sumer Singh Meena, Ashoka Narayana Naik, C B Harisha, Honnappa Asangi, Sharda Choudhary, Ravindra Singh, Yallappa Dengeru, Kavan Kumar V, Narottam Kumar Meena, Ram Swaroop Meena, Arvind Kumar Verma
BACKGROUND: Plants have been pivotal in traditional and modern medicine globally, with historical evidence supporting their therapeutic applications. Nigella ( Nigella sativa L.) is an annual herbaceous plant of the Ranunculaceae family and is cultivated in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Western and Central Asia. The medicinal use of plants dates back thousands of years, documented in ancient writings from various civilizations. Alkaloids, phenolics, saponins, flavonoids, terpenoids, anthraquinones, and tannins found in plants exhibit antioxidant, immunomodulatory, anti-inflammatory, anticancer, antibacterial, and antidiabetic activities...
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