Medicinal plants with anti-inflammatory activity
Journal Title: The Journal of Phytopharmacology - Year 2016, Vol 5, Issue 4
Abstract
Inflammation is part of the body's immune response. There can be four primary indicators of inflammation: pain, redness, heat or warmness and swelling. Plants have the ability to synthesize a wide verity of phytochemical compounds as secondary metabolites which shows anti-inflammatory activity. In the present review an attempt has been made to investigate the anti-inflammatory activity of some medicinal plants.
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Sunita Verma
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