Pharmacognosy

Books

  1. Rema Shree, A.B., Vijayan, K.K. and Indira Balachandran. 2011. Pharmacognostic standards of Ayurvedic Bark drugs. Arya Vaidya Sala, Kottakkal. 1-183.

Papers in journals

  1. Sreekanth S, Kumar UP and Remashree AB. 2013.  Pharmacognostic standardization of Heart wood of Combretum albidum G. Don: An Important Ethnomedicinal Liana. IJPPR. 5(2): 106-112. 

  2.  Jayanthy, A, Sulaiman, CT and Remashree AB. 2012. Pharmacognostical and Phytochemical Comparison of Roots of Solanum species used in Ayurvedic Formulations. International Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemical Research. Vol 4(1). 28-37.

  3. Nitha B, Remashree AB and Balachandran I. 2012. Antimicrobial activity of some selected Indian medicinal plants. IJPSR, Vol. 3(7)-2038-2042.

     

  4. Sereena K, Girija TP, Sreedhar S and Remashree AB. 2012. Comparative pharmacognostic and phytochemical studies of the drug sources of Prasarani used in Ayurveda. Int. J. Pharm. Sci. Res. 3(1): 257-264.

     

  5. Sreedhar S, Prakash Kumar U and AB. Remashree. 2012. Pharmacognostic Analysis of Stem Bark of Combretum albidum G. Don; An Unexplored Medicinal Plant. Pharmacognosy Journal, Volume 4, Issue 28, p.13-18, (2012)

     

  6. Sereena K, Prakash Kumar U, Remashree AB. 2011. Histochemical and phytochemical markers for the authentication of ayurvedic raw drug Hallakam (Kaempferia rotunda) and its marketed adulterant. International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research Vol.2 (11) pp. 2952-2958.

  7.  Jayanthi A and AB Remashree 2011. Comparative root anatomy of three Desmodium Species. Journal of Tropical Medicinal Plants 12(1). pp 127-133.

  8. Girija TP and AB Rema Shree. 2010. Pharmacognostic and phytochemical studies on the raw drug Citraka an ayurvedic medicinal plant. Phytomorphology 60(3 & 4) 128-136.

  9. Girija TP and AB Rema Shree. 2010. Marker identified in the roots of Holostemma ada-kodien and Leptadenia reticulata the drug sources of Jivanti used in Ayurveda. Journal of Tropical Medicinal Plants 11(2). pp 191-198.

  10. Remashree AB.2010..  Marker Based Detection of identity  and authenticity  of raw Herbal Drugs and finished  Ayurvedic  products  for quality  control and standardization-Planta Medica Vol. 76  p 504.

  11. Remashree, AB, Jayanthi A and Balachandran I. 2008. Comparative anatomy of six species of Sida. Phytomorphology Vol. 58 Nos. (3&4) pp 163-172. 

  12. Remashree AB, Sreedevi K, Sandhya B and Balachandran I. 2008. Comparative Anatomical and Chemical studies on the aril and kernel of Myristica fragrans Houtt. and Myristica malabarica Lamk..  Mal. J. Trop. Med. Plants Vol. 9 (1) 109-117.

  13. Tushar KV, Satheesh George, Remashree AB and Balachandran I. 2008. Coscinium fenestratum (Gaertn.) Colebr. - A Review on this Rare, Critically Endangered and Highly-Traded Medicinal Species. J. Plant Sci., 3(2): 133-145.

  14. Sreenivasan GV, Sereena K, Unnihrishnanan KP,  Remashree AB and Balachandran IA Comparative Study of Quantitative Standards, TLC and HPLC profiles of roots of Boerhavia diffusaBoerhavia erecta and Trianthema portulacastrum. Journal of Tropical Medicinal Plants, 8(2), 238-246.

  15. Remashree AB, Thomas VT, Raghu AV, Nabesa E,  and Neelakandan N. 2007. Miropropagation of Syzigium cumini (Linn.) Skeels. A multipurpose tree. Res. Jour. of Botany 2(4): 208-213.

  16. Remashree AB, Thomas VT, Raghu AV, Nabesa E, and Neelakandan N. 2007. Miropropagation of Syzigium cumini (Linn.) Skeels. A multipurpose tree. Res. Jour. of Botany 2(4): 208-213.

  17. Raghu AV, George S, Remashree AB, Tushar KV and Mohanan KV. 2006. Plant regeneration in Solanum violaceum..Jour. Tropical Med. Plants, 7(2): 213-218.

  18. George S, Tushar KV, Udayan PS, Raja S, Unnikrishnan KP, Remashree AB, Balachandran I and Ravindran PN. 2006. Adhatoda zeylanica – A Review. J. Trop. Med. Plants, 7(1): 137-147.

  19. George S, Tushar KV, Udayan PS, Raja S, Unnikrishnan KP, Remashree AB, Balachandran I and Ravindran PN. 2006. Morphotypes of Adhatoda zeylanica Medic. Journal of Non-Timber Forest Products, Vol. 13(1): 29-31

  20. George S, Tushar KV, Udayan PS, Remashree AB and Balachandran I. 2006. Occurrence of natural shoot proliferation in Justicia gendarussa Burm.f. Journal of Non-Timber Forest Products, Vol. 13(3): 203.

  21. 25 Remashree AB and Balachandran I. 2006. Anatomical and histochemical studies of four species of Curcuma. Phytomorphology, 56 (1 &2) 1-8.

  22. Remashree AB, Tushar KV, George S and Balachandran I 2006. Micromorphological studies on leaf of tree turmeric, Coscinium fenestratum (Gaertn.) Colebr. – a critically endangered medicinal platns. Phytomorphology, 56 (3 &4) 133- 139). 

  23. Remashree, AB, Raja SS, Jayanthy A, Unnikrishnan KP and Balachandran I. 2005.  Comparative anatomical and phytochemical markers to identify asoka from its common adulterant”. Aryavaidyan, 19: 13-24.

  24. Remashree AB, Jayanthi A, Thushar KV, Ravindran PN and Balachandran I. 2005. Anatomy of Coscinium fenestratum (Gaertn.) Colebr. A critically endangered medicinal plant from western Ghats. Phytomorphology 55(3, 4): 01 – 09.

  25. Remashree, AB, Jayanthi A, Raja SS, Unnikrishnan KP and Balachandran I. 2005. Anatomical and Chemical studies on roots of Aegle marmelos and Atalantia monophyllaJournal of Tropical Medicinal Plants, 6(1): 123-131.

  26. George S, Remashree AB, Tushar KV, Raghu AV, Hariharan M and Benjamin S. 2005. Somatic embryogenesis and organogenesis in Centella asiaticaJournal of Tropical Medicinal Plants, 6(2): 241–243.

  27. Latheef , AK, Kumar S P and Remashree A B. 2014. Ethnomedicine used for treating cuts and wounds by the tribes of Attappady, Kerala.   International Journal of Herbal Medicine; 2 (2): 1-8

  28. Deepthy M.R and A. B. Remashree 2014. Ethanopharmacological survey of medicinal plants in Malabar, northern Kerala. International Journal of Herbal Medicine 2014; 2 (1): 92-99.

  29. Prakash Kumar U., Indira Balachandran and A.B. Rema Shree. 2014. Standardisation of quality parameter and quantification of 6-shogoal in charturbhadra kvatha churna – A polyherbal ayurvedic formulation. European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences. 1(2): 83-97.

  30. Vineeth T., Deepak M. and Remashree A.B. Antibacterial effect of Boerhavia diffusa and Punarnavasavam on urinary tract infection (UTI) causing pathogens. World Journal of Pharmaceuitical Research. 3(5)423-437. 

  31. Jayanthy A., Prakash Kumar U. and A. B. Remashree. 2013. Effect of special and temporal variations in cellular characters and chemical contents in Pseudarthria vicida (L.) W.& Arn.- medicinal plant. Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemical Research. 5(3): 177-182. 

  32. Jayanthy A., Deepak M. and A. B. Remashree. 2013. Pharmacognostic characterization and comparison of fruits of Tribulus terrestris L. and Pedalium murex L. Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemical Research. 1(4) 29-34.

  33. Sreekanth S. Nitha B. and Remashree AB. 2013. Antimicrobial activity of stem bark of Combretum albidum G. Don., A traditional medicinal liana. Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemical Research. 4(8): 3184-3188. 

  34. Sreekanth S. Prakash Kumar U. and Remashree AB. 2013. Extraction, isolation, characterization and TLC densitometric quantification of bioactive compounds from Combretum albidum G. Don: An unexplored medicinal liana. The Journal of Phytochemistry –Photon. 114. 212-219.

  35. Jayanthy A., Prakash Kumar U. and A. B. Remashree.2013. Seasonal and Geographical Variations in Cellular Characters and Chemical Contents in Desmodium gangeticum (L.) DC. – An Ayurvedic Medicinal Plant. International Journal of Herbal Medicine. 2(3) 34-37. 

  36. Deepak M., Prakash Kumar U. A. B. Remashree and Balachandran I. 2013. Quality parameters, fatty acid profiling and estimation of umbelliferon in grahanimihira tailam: an ayurvedic oil preparation. Ancient Science of life. 32(4). 

  37. Satheesh K. Remashree A.B. Anil Kumar N. and Indira Balachandran. 2013. Micromorphological studies using scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) for species delimitation in the selected species of Gymnema occurring in Kerala. 1(10): 5-7.

  38. Sereena, K. Balachandran, I. and A.B. Remashree, 2011. Comparative root anatomy of Boerhavia species. J. Trop. Med. Plants Vol. 12(2).  237-241.

  39. Sreekala, K., Balachandran, I. and Remashree, A. B. 2011. Evaluation of therapeutic administration of Certain medicinal plants to cure jaundice in Kerala. India. J. Trop. Med. Plants. 12(2): 167-171. 

  40. Remashree A. B. and Indira Balachandran. 2004. Digitized histology of raw drugs used in ayurvedic medicines and its application in quality control. WHAT Medicine 350-351.

  41. Prakash Kumar Unnikrishnan, Tito Varughese, Sreekanth Sreedhar, Nitha Balan and A.B. Remashree 2014. Study on Eupatorium triplinerve Vahl. From south India a rich source for thymohydroquinone dimethylether and its antimicrobial activity. Journal of Essential Oil Bearing Plants.17: 4, 652-657.

Seminar/Symposium

  1. Jayanthy A , Prakash Kumar U and Remashree AB. 2013. Effect of spacial and temporal variations in cellular characters and chemical contents in Pseudarthria viscida (l.)w. & arn. – a medicinal plant. Proceedings of 25th Kerala Science Congress, Techno park. Trivandrum. 720-721.

  2. Jayanthy A, Sulaiman CT and Remashree AB. 2011. Pharmacognostical and Phytochemical Comparison of Roots of Solanum species used in Ayurvedic Formulations. Proceedings of Second National Seminar on Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology. Interuniversity Centre for Plant Biotechnology, Dept. of Botany, University of Calicut. 22.

  3. Sreedhar S, Sreevidhya R and Rema Shree AB. 2010. Establishing the identity of controversial source plants of krishna sariva with reference to Ayurvedic classical texts. Proceedings of 22nd Kerala Science Congress, KFRI, Pechi. Pp. 720-721.

  4. Sereena K, Hashim KM and Remashree AB. 2010. Comparative pharmacognostic and phytochemical studies of the raw drug sources of Prasarini used in Ayurveda. Proceedings of 22nd Kerala Science Congress, KFRI, Pechi. 848.

  5. Girija TP, Hashim KM and Remashree AB. 2010. Marker based comparison of the roots of Holostemma ada-kodien and Leptadenia reticulata the raw drug sources of Jivanti used in Ayurveda. Proceedings of 22nd Kerala Science Congress, KFRI, Pechi. 698-699.

  6. Sreekala K, Balachandran I and Remashree AB. 2011. Quick validation of a few ethnic practices for jaundice through RALHT method. Proceedings of 22nd Kerala Science Congress, KFRI, Pechi. 687-688.

  7. Jayanthy A, Hashim KM and AB. Remashree. 2007characterization and comparison of three species of Desmodium.. Proceedings of Kerala Science Congress. pp234-236.

  8. Sereena K, Girija TP, Sreenivasan GV and. Remashree AB. 2007. Quality standardization of the raw drug sources of Amrita used in ayurveda. Proceedings of Kerala Science Congress. pp 182- 184.

  9. Girija TP, Sereena K, Unnikrishnan KP. and Remashree AB. 2007. Pharmacognostical and phytochemical studies on the raw drug Citraka. Proceedings of Kerala Science pp. 197-199.

  10. Remashree AB and Jayanthi A. 2006. Histochemical markers as tool to identify the ayurvedic raw drugs HaridraVanaharidra and Daruharidra from its common adulterants. Proceedings of 18th Kerala Science Congress, CESS, Thiruvananthapuram.

  11. Remashree AB.and Jayanthi A. 2006. Calcium oxalate crystal and stone cells distribution pattern as a key to identify ten important raw drugs used in Ayurveda (Won the best poster award in Health Sciences and Over all Best Poster Award). Proceedings of 18th Kerala Science Congress, CESS, Thiruvananthapuram.

  12. Jayanthi A and AB Remashree. 2005. Anatomical markers as a tool to identify genuine raw drug Asoka from its common adulterants (Won the best poster award in Health Sciences). In proceedings: XVII Kerala Science Congress, KFRI, Peechi, Thrissur p. 298.

  13. Remashree AB, Balachandran I and Ravindran PN. 2003. Pharmacognostic studies in 4 species of Curcuma species. Proceedings of 12th Swadeshi Science Congress, Nov 6-9th 2003.

  14. Deepak M. Vineeth T., AB Remashree and Indira Balachandran 2014. Scientific validation of therapeutic activity of traditionally used ayurvedic preparation Patolamooladikwata Choorna. Proceedings of 26th Kerala Science congress. Wayanad. Kerala. 2942-48.

  15. AB Remashree, Smitha P. Kumar and Anju P.V. 2014. In-vitro antilithiatic studies on ethnomedicinal plants used by traditional practitioners of Palakkad and Wayanad Districts of Kerala. Proceedings of 26th Kerala Science congress. Wayanad. Kerala.319-321.

  16. Sreekanth Sreedhar, Prakash Kumar and A.B. Remashree. 2014. Pharmacognostic analysis of stem bark of Combretum albedum G. Don. An unexplored traditional medicinal plant of Chinnar area of Kerala. Proceedings of 26th Kerala Science congress. Wayanad. 265 n style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>319-321.

  17. Prakash Kumar U, Sreekanth Sreedhar, Nitha B. and Remashree, A. B. 2014. Study on a new thymohydroquinone Dimethylether rich Eupatorium triplinerve Vahl from India. Proceedings of 26th Kerala Science congress. Wayanad. 263.

  18. Abdhul latheef K., Vineeth T. and AB Remashree. 2013. Antibacterial activity of Calycopteris floribunda Lam. Fresh tender leaf juice against common wound infecting bacteria. Proceedings of National seminar on Forestry and Agriculture. 

  19. Smitha P. Kumar., Deepak M. and AB Remashree. 2013. Evaluation of antilithiatic effect of tender leaf extract of Anacardium oxidentale L. on calcium oxalate crystallization in-vitro. Preceedings of National Seminar on Forestry and Agriculture.

  20. Deepthy M. R. and AB Remashree. 2013. Screening of indigenous knowledge of herbal remedies for skin diseases among traditional healers of Malabar region, Kerala. Preceedings of National seminar on Forestry and Agriculture. 

  21. Sadashiva C.T., Satheesh George, Nitha Balan, U. Praksh Kumar and Indira balachandran. 2013. Preliminary phytochemical and Antimicrobial Activity of ethnolic extract of Pittosporum viridulum stem bark. Prospects in bioscience: Addressing the Issues. 89-92.

  22. Deepak M., Prakash Kumar U., AB Remashree and Indira Balachandran 2012. Evaluation of physicochemical parameters and quantification of umbelliferon in ana ayurvedic formulation. Proceedings of 24th Kerala Science Congress, RRII, Kottayam.629-631.

  23. Prakash Kumar U., AB Remashree and Indira Balachandran 2012. A rapid technique for detection of mineral oil in vegetable oils used as vehicles in Ayurvedic formulations. Proceedings of 24th Kerala Science Congress, RRII, Kottayam.297-299.

  24. Sreevidya R. 2012. Etymologial basis in finding out the source of certain lesser known Ayurvedic drugs. Proceedings of world Ayurveda congress& Arogya Expo., Bhopal Madya Pradesh, India. 137.

  25. Prakash Kumar U, Rema Shree A B, Indira Balachandran; Standardisation and Quality control methods of poly-herbal Ayurvedic formulation, Chadurbhadra kvatha churna. Proceedings of 23rd Kerala Science Congress 2011 conducted at CESS, Thiruvananthapuram. 

  26. Prakash Kumar U. and A.B. Rema shree. A rapid technique for detection of mineral oil in vegetable oils used as vehicles in Ayurvedic formulations. Proceedings of Second National Seminar on Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology. Inter-university Centre for Plant Biotechnology, Dept. of Botany, University of Calicut. 22.

  27. Sreekala K. Proceedings of Second National Seminar on Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology. Inter-university Centre for Plant Biotechnology, Dept. of Botany, University of Calicut. 22. 

  28. Hashim K.M and A B. Remashree 2010. Identification of the antioxidant fraction in Baliospermum montanum using bioassay guided fractionation. Proceedings of 22nd Kerala Science Congress, KFRI, Pechi. 313-314. 

  29. Satheesh George, A.B. Remashree and Indira Balachandran. 2010. Intraspecific variability studies in Terminalia chebula Retz. accessions collected from various agroclimatic zones in South India. Indian Biodiversity Congress. Trivandrum. 28-30 December 2010. Organized by Centre for Innovation in Science and Social Action (CISSA), Trivandrum. of Botany, University of Calicut.

  30. Satheesh George, Hashim K.M., A.B. Remashree, Anu Augustine and Indira Balachandran. 2009. Scanning electron microscopic (SEM) and gas chromatographic (GC) studies in different accessions of Hemidesmus indicus (L.) R.  Br. XXIst Kerala Science Congress, Kollam, Kerala.

  31. Remashree A.B. 2008. Role of pharmacognostic markers in standardization and quality control of raw drugs used in Ayurveda. Proceedings of National seminar on drug standardization in Ayurveda, Govt. Ayurveda College, Trivandrum. 123. 

  32. Remashree. A.B. and Indira Balachandran 2007. Digitized histology of Raw drugs used in Ayurvedic medicines and its application in Quality control. Proceedings of 19th Kerala Science Congress, Kannur, 720-721.

  33. Rema Shree A. B. Sandhya B., Sreedevi K., Jayanthi A. and Girija, T.P. 2005  Pharmacognostic and phytochemical markers to identify genuine bark of Asoka for standardization and quality control. Proceedings of national seminar on Conservation, Cultivation and sustainable Utilization of Saraca asoca 42-48.

     


  • "The Centre for Medicinal Plants Research functions as a pioneer institute in the area of research, education, conservation and popularisation of Ayurvedic medicinal plants."

  • "The Centre for Medicinal Plants Research functions as a pioneer institute in the area of research, education, conservation and popularisation of Ayurvedic medicinal plants."

  • "The Centre for Medicinal Plants Research functions as a pioneer institute in the area of research, education, conservation and popularisation of Ayurvedic medicinal plants."