Priyanshu Thapliyal, Pallavi Dheer, Indra Rautela, Sandeep Kumar, S. Upadhyay, Sheetal Tyagi, Vanshika Saini, Madhu Kaushik, M. Sharma
{"title":"An Insight Review on the Prophylactic Effects of Ayurvedic Plants in the Global COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"Priyanshu Thapliyal, Pallavi Dheer, Indra Rautela, Sandeep Kumar, S. Upadhyay, Sheetal Tyagi, Vanshika Saini, Madhu Kaushik, M. Sharma","doi":"10.21608/ejbo.2023.200503.2281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/ejbo.2023.200503.2281","url":null,"abstract":"S TRINGENT adherence to WHO guidelines has been maintained to minimize the risk of COVID-19 infection and ensure safety. In addition, the AYUSH Ministry of India’s recommendations, pertaining to the Ayurvedic approach to boosting immunity and lowering the risk of contracting SARS-CoV-2 infection, have shown to be highly effective prophylactic measures. Ayurvedic methods have played a significant role in managing COVID-19 infections and symptoms during the pandemic. Key recommendations include maintaining hydration by drinking water, using herbs and spices in food, and practicing daily yoga poses, pranayama, and meditation. Ayurvedic medications such as Sudarsana Ghana Vati, Suvarna Vasanta Malati Rasa , Amrutadi Kasaya , and so forth are commonly used . Additionally, Ayurveda offers therapeutic modalities such as Panchakarma (five purifying processes), Rasanya Chikitsa (immune-modulator therapy), and Sadvritta (good conduct) to support overall well-being and promote recovery from the disease. This review intends to deliver the Ayurvedic approaches, including the use of medicinal plants like Withania somnifera and Tinospora cordifolia, as well as the implementation of daily guidelines and measures in daily routines for combating COVID-19. It further highlights the present scenario, the emergence of the virus and genetic variations in its genome, and the potential therapeutic applications of Ayurvedic medicinal plants to discover the immunomodulatory effects and their impending ways of fighting and treating the infection.","PeriodicalId":45102,"journal":{"name":"Egyptian Journal of Botany","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47915905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of Habitat Heterogeneity on the Growth and Biochemical Components of Three Plant Species Native to the Mediterranean Coast of Egypt","authors":"A. Mahmoud, M. Halmy, L. Hassan, E. Farahat","doi":"10.21608/ejbo.2023.211776.2335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/ejbo.2023.211776.2335","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45102,"journal":{"name":"Egyptian Journal of Botany","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47070287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Eid, Mohamed S. Youssef, Y. Mahmoud, Reham Sedeek, H. Saleh, Gamal K. Kasem, Asaad Gaber
{"title":"Anti-HBV Efficacy of Ficus Plant's Leaf Extract against the Most Dominant HBV Genotypes in the Nile Delta Region of Egypt","authors":"M. Eid, Mohamed S. Youssef, Y. Mahmoud, Reham Sedeek, H. Saleh, Gamal K. Kasem, Asaad Gaber","doi":"10.21608/ejbo.2023.183525.2219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/ejbo.2023.183525.2219","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45102,"journal":{"name":"Egyptian Journal of Botany","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47443149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Incorporation of Nanotechnology in Propagation Treatments by Cuttings of Jojoba (Simmondsia chinensis (Link) Schneider) Shrubs in Egypt and South Africa","authors":"A. Soliman, S. Shahin, Sayed A.M. Goda","doi":"10.21608/ejbo.2023.198552.2273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/ejbo.2023.198552.2273","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45102,"journal":{"name":"Egyptian Journal of Botany","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45063909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Salama, N. El-Tayeh, A. Zaher, S. E. El Naggar, A. Gaafar
{"title":"Phytosociological Studies on the Associated Species of Balanites aegyptiaca In The Eastern and Western Egyptian Deserts","authors":"F. Salama, N. El-Tayeh, A. Zaher, S. E. El Naggar, A. Gaafar","doi":"10.21608/ejbo.2023.205410.2308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/ejbo.2023.205410.2308","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45102,"journal":{"name":"Egyptian Journal of Botany","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42584164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Morphological and Molecular Identification of Endophytic Fungi from Roots of Tomato and Evaluation of Their Antioxidant and Cytotoxic Activities","authors":"S. El-Debaiky, A. F. El-sayed","doi":"10.21608/ejbo.2023.201958.2291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/ejbo.2023.201958.2291","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45102,"journal":{"name":"Egyptian Journal of Botany","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44779099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Micromorphological Investigation in Leaf Epidermis of Some Monocotyledons Taxa","authors":"W. Taia, A. Shehata, E. Bassiouni","doi":"10.21608/ejbo.2023.195136.2261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/ejbo.2023.195136.2261","url":null,"abstract":"T WENTY species that belong to 13 genera under six families, two belonging to order Asparagales and four to order Liliales, are subjected in this recent work. Micro-morphological leaf characters using both Light and Scanning Electron microscopes have been studied. The pavement cells, hairs, prickles and stomatal characters beside stomatal density and index have been calculated. The data obtained has been subjected to clustering analyses using Paleontological Statistics (PAST) program. The results which were obtained from this study do not give clear separations between the two orders or even the families and considered the studied six families have common leaf characters. Meanwhile, characters of epidermal cells, hairs, papillae, prickles, and stomata can give clear features in the identification of some species. Hence, we can conclude that the separation of these orders and families and their taxonomic ranking need further investigation to clarify the perfect relation between them.","PeriodicalId":45102,"journal":{"name":"Egyptian Journal of Botany","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49449212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Goods and Services Provided by Native Plants in Nile Delta, Egypt: in the Viewpoint of Conservation","authors":"Omnia M. Arief, D. Ahmed","doi":"10.21608/ejbo.2023.200845.2282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/ejbo.2023.200845.2282","url":null,"abstract":"T HE NILE Delta is one of the oldest and largest deltas in the world covers 4 % of Egypt’s area and occupies 63 % of the Egyptian cultivated land. The present study focuses on the goods and services offered by Delta’s natural ecosystem. Thirty field trips were conducted to different locations to cover the study area from spring 2020 to summer 2022. Based on field observation and information gathered from residents and herbalists (60 people from the study area were interviewed, ranging in age from 30 to 60 years old) the goods, services and threats of the recorded species were assessed. Forty-nine were recorded and their roles in goods and services; identified threats that cover the gradual change in the study area were recorded. Recorded species offer many goods such as grazing (36 species), medicinal (26) and human food (15). Also, they provide environmental benefits that ruderal and segetal weeds are the most commonly offered service, followed by bank retainer (16 species) and weed controller (6 species). Thirty-six species (73% of recorded species) suffer from at least one type of threat; over-collecting and over-cutting were the most common threat (46.9%), then habitat loss (40.8%), browsing and over-grazing (34.7%), clearance for agriculture (24.5%) species) and disturbance by cars or trampling (10%). Authors recommended that Nile Delta natural flora need continuous monitoring and conservation, as this region faces deteriorating habitat loss and even extinction of plants; which offer many goods and services for humans and the environment.","PeriodicalId":45102,"journal":{"name":"Egyptian Journal of Botany","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47809471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gamma-irradiation Induces Phenotypic and Genotypic Mutations in M3 and M4 Generations of Phaseolus vulgaris","authors":"M. El-Lithy, Shaimaa H. Abdelgawad, A. Badr","doi":"10.21608/ejbo.2023.182732.2217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/ejbo.2023.182732.2217","url":null,"abstract":"be an alternative strategy for increasing crop yield and","PeriodicalId":45102,"journal":{"name":"Egyptian Journal of Botany","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47119687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Alphonse, S. Adhikari, William Raja Tharsius Raja, Nagaraj Nallakaruppan, C. Veluchamy, Manoj Sekaran, Parthipanraja Andandaraj, Kanagam Nachiappan, Rahda Navapara, Richa Doshi, Nidhi Sabade, Anantharaman Perumal, K. Thiagarajan, Rajasekaran Chandrasekaran
{"title":"Ethnobotanical and Traditional Knowledge on Psammophytic Plants: Southeast Indian Coastal Area","authors":"M. Alphonse, S. Adhikari, William Raja Tharsius Raja, Nagaraj Nallakaruppan, C. Veluchamy, Manoj Sekaran, Parthipanraja Andandaraj, Kanagam Nachiappan, Rahda Navapara, Richa Doshi, Nidhi Sabade, Anantharaman Perumal, K. Thiagarajan, Rajasekaran Chandrasekaran","doi":"10.21608/ejbo.2023.130140.1947","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/ejbo.2023.130140.1947","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45102,"journal":{"name":"Egyptian Journal of Botany","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44566318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}