Pharmacological Updates of Pistia Stratiotes (Water Lettuce/ Jalakumbhi): A Mini Review

  • Kuntal Pal Banaras Hindu University
  • Sampat Kumar Kundu Gurunanak Institute of Pharmaceutical Science & Technology
Keywords: Pistia Stratiotes, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Pharmacology

Abstract

World is running so first, at this moment medicines have to work to maintain the health of the people to give them power to stabilize them. Modern medicine is working from a decades or so, but many traditional systems of medicines also show some beneficial effects in that era. Likewise Kampo, Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM), Ayurveda & Herbal Medicines. Those kind of medicines can give a patient resistant to protect the disease without less side effects. Pistia stratiotes is a plant which plays a commendable role in that era. It is used in different kind of disease which are described in this mini review.

Author Biographies

Kuntal Pal, Banaras Hindu University

Institute of Medical Sciences,
Rajiv Gandhi South Campus,
Banaras Hindu University,
Barkachha, Mirzapur, India

Sampat Kumar Kundu, Gurunanak Institute of Pharmaceutical Science & Technology

Gurunanak Institute of Pharmaceutical Science & Technology
Sodepur, West Bengal, India

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Published
2014-01-01
How to Cite
[1]
Pal, K. and Kundu, S. 2014. Pharmacological Updates of Pistia Stratiotes (Water Lettuce/ Jalakumbhi): A Mini Review. PharmaTutor. 2, 1 (Jan. 2014), 21-25.
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