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| Title: | Glycyrrhiza glabra: Medicine over the millennium |
| Authors: | Saxena, Sanjai |
| Keywords: | Bioactive constituents
Glycyrrhiza glabra
Licorice
Liquorice
Pharmacophores
Glycyrrhizin |
| Issue Date: | Oct-2005 |
| Publisher: | CSIR |
| IPC Code: | Int. cl.7— A61K7/00, A61K 35/78, A61P 1/04, A61P 1/16, A61P 11/00, A61P 31/00, A61P 35/00 |
| Abstract: | Glycyrrhiza glabra Linn. is an age-old plant used in
traditional medicine across the globe for its ethnopharmacological values to
cure varieties of ailments from simple cough to hepatitis to more complex like
SARS and cancer. The present paper is an
effort to highlight the role of a few major constituents of this plant, which
have multifaceted pharmacological actions and could be used as templates for
designing new pharmacophores using modern chemical and bioanalytical tools. |
| Page(s): | 358-367 |
| ISSN: | 0975-1092 (Online); 0972-592X (Print) |
| Source: | NPR Vol.4(5) [September-October 2005]
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