Twenty cases of parinamasula (duodenal ulcer) were selected for the clinical study. The patients were diagnosed on the basis of barium meal, X-ray and gastric analysis in addition to the clinical history and physical examination. All the cases were ulcer positive or with duodenal bulb deformity. Group A (15cases) was having hyperchlorhydria and hyperacidity and group B (5cases) was having normal gastric acidity. All the patients were given satawari tuberous root powder 20 gm/day in three divided doses with milk for one month and the results were assessed.

The essential oil of santolina chamaecyparissus reduced the survival of Nilaparvatha lugens after 72 hours. The oil is found to be a good pesticide.

The drug standardization project functioning at IIADR, Tarikhet has carried out chemical studies and other investigations on Tribhuvanakirti rasa a commonly used medicinal preparation in current practice, these studies are presented in this paper.

The effects of the fertilizers, CYTOZYME, MIRACLE, PLANOFIX and VIPUL on Solanum trilobatum  were studied CYTOZYME showed improved morphometric performance and the highest yield. VIPUL contributed greater drought resistance to the medicinal plant.

An interesting clinical study on dietitics I diabetes treatment is presented in this article.

Medicinal plants used in Indian system of medicine from Rajasthan state have been surveyed and catagorised systematically. The paper deals with 205 medicinal plants, thoroughly indexed along with their important traditional application for the cure of various ailments.

The article highlights their therapeutic role of svasa kuthara rasa and sirishadi kashaya in the management of bronchial asthma.

This papar gives a detailed account of description and illustration of the plant Tropaeolum majus Linn. Used in the homoeopathic system of medicine.

Pinda Taila is a medicated oil used Ayurveda for vaatharakta, the aim of the present study is to fix physicochemical standards for the above Taila. Though the analytical values can be as preliminary reference standards, these values are mostly related to the purity of the sesame oil, the thin layer chromatography (TLC) studies of the Taila are more useful to detect the presence of single drugs present in panda Taila.

Swertia is an important genus used in Indian medicine. A comprehensive review on this genus is presented in this article.

The paper reports the ethnomedicinal uses of 32 plants by the tribals of Narayanapatna area of koraput district, Orissa. Besides, uses of other plants or plant products are also dealt, with. Distribution of plants in the area, their field numbers, local and oriya names are appended.

This communication is a report of some preliminary studies followed by chemical investigations done on the aerial parts of Melothria maderaspatana  (Linn) Cogn., a plant drug used in traditional system of medicine in India against a variety of diseases.