PHYTOCONSTITUENTS OF KABASURA KUDINEER AND NILAVEMBU POWDER EXTRACTS

Kabasura Kudineer is a well-known Siddha medicine that consists of a whopping 15 herbal ingredients each of them having unique characteristic features of its own. It is extensively used for boosting the lungs improving respiratory mechanism and treating infectious conditions like cough cold fever and respiratory infections. Kabasura kudineer possesses strong anti-bacterial anti-fungal antioxidant hepato-protective anti-pyretic anti-asthmatic and immunomodulatory properties. Famed as the ‘King of Bitters’ Nilavembu is one such Siddha herb that has innumerable immune-enhancing properties like anti-pyretic cholagogue digestive hepatoprotective and anti-inflammatory and has been used as a traditional remedy for treating various ailments in the Ayurvedic and Siddha systems of medicine as well as in Unani Homeopathy Chinese remedies and tribal medicine. This book gives an insight to the phytochemistry anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory potential of kabasura kudineer and nilavembu powder extracts.