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Bryophytes: Hoard of remedies, an ethno-medicinal review
Bryophytes are the second largest group of land plants after angiosperms. There is very less knowledge available about medicinal properties of these plants. Bryophytes are popular remedy among the tribal people of different parts of the world. Tribal people use these plants to cure various ailments...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5198817/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28053893 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcme.2016.01.007 |
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author | Chandra, Satish Chandra, Dinesh Barh, Anupam Pankaj Pandey, Raj Kumar Sharma, Ishwar Prakash |
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description | Bryophytes are the second largest group of land plants after angiosperms. There is very less knowledge available about medicinal properties of these plants. Bryophytes are popular remedy among the tribal people of different parts of the world. Tribal people use these plants to cure various ailments in their daily lives. Bryophytes are used to cure hepatic disorders, skin diseases, cardiovascular diseases, used as antipyretic, antimicrobial, wound healing and many more other ailments by different tribal communities of Africa, America, Europe, Poland, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, Japan, Taiwan, Pakistan, China, Nepal and different parts of South, North and Eastern India. Apart from ethno-medicinal uses some bryophytes possesses antitumor activities against different cancer cell lines and this property of bryophytes needs to be more focused in the future. Compile information about medicinal properties and anticancer properties of bryophytes is lacking till date. In the present review, the authors tried to compile all the ethno-medicinal and other related information of bryophytes and fill the knowledge lacuna in this particular field. Some published reviews are available but the information is segregated. This manuscript will help people doing research in the bryophytes. |
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spelling | pubmed-51988172017-01-04 Bryophytes: Hoard of remedies, an ethno-medicinal review Chandra, Satish Chandra, Dinesh Barh, Anupam Pankaj Pandey, Raj Kumar Sharma, Ishwar Prakash J Tradit Complement Med Review Article Bryophytes are the second largest group of land plants after angiosperms. There is very less knowledge available about medicinal properties of these plants. Bryophytes are popular remedy among the tribal people of different parts of the world. Tribal people use these plants to cure various ailments in their daily lives. Bryophytes are used to cure hepatic disorders, skin diseases, cardiovascular diseases, used as antipyretic, antimicrobial, wound healing and many more other ailments by different tribal communities of Africa, America, Europe, Poland, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, Japan, Taiwan, Pakistan, China, Nepal and different parts of South, North and Eastern India. Apart from ethno-medicinal uses some bryophytes possesses antitumor activities against different cancer cell lines and this property of bryophytes needs to be more focused in the future. Compile information about medicinal properties and anticancer properties of bryophytes is lacking till date. In the present review, the authors tried to compile all the ethno-medicinal and other related information of bryophytes and fill the knowledge lacuna in this particular field. Some published reviews are available but the information is segregated. This manuscript will help people doing research in the bryophytes. Elsevier 2016-04-04 /pmc/articles/PMC5198817/ /pubmed/28053893 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcme.2016.01.007 Text en Copyright © 2016, Center for Food and Biomolecules, National Taiwan University. Production and hosting by Elsevier Taiwan LLC. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Article Chandra, Satish Chandra, Dinesh Barh, Anupam Pankaj Pandey, Raj Kumar Sharma, Ishwar Prakash Bryophytes: Hoard of remedies, an ethno-medicinal review |
title | Bryophytes: Hoard of remedies, an ethno-medicinal review |
title_full | Bryophytes: Hoard of remedies, an ethno-medicinal review |
title_fullStr | Bryophytes: Hoard of remedies, an ethno-medicinal review |
title_full_unstemmed | Bryophytes: Hoard of remedies, an ethno-medicinal review |
title_short | Bryophytes: Hoard of remedies, an ethno-medicinal review |
title_sort | bryophytes: hoard of remedies, an ethno-medicinal review |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5198817/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28053893 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcme.2016.01.007 |
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