Research Journal of Pharmacy and Technology
SCOPUS
  • Year: 2013
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue: 12

Plants with Diuretic Effect

  • Author:
  • R. Rajanivetha
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 1413 to 1414

Second Year, B.D.S, Saveetha Dental College, Chennai, India

*Corresponding Author E-mail: niranjanbpharm@rediffmail.com

Online published on 31 January, 2014.

Abstract

India is one of the richest floristic regions of the world and has been a source of plants and their products since antiquity and man uses them in different ways according to his needs, particularly as food or as medicine. There is rising interest of herbal drugs in the health and their benefits. The beneficial reason is that they might offer a natural safeguard against the development of certain conditions and be a reputed treatment for some diseases or ailments. One major class of clinical medicines that are used to lower the blood pressure are known as diuretics.

Keywords

Medicinal plants, drugs, diuretic effect