<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pravanjan Kumar Tripathy</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Manas Ranjan Mishra</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A Detail Study of an Ethnomedicinal Plant Sarcostemma Acidum Voigt</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pharmacognosy Journal</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ethnomedicinal uses</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Macroscopy</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">microscopy</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pharmacological Effects</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Phytochemicals</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sarcostemma acidum Voigt</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2025</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">April 2025</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">17</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">188-190</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p class=&quot;rtejustify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sarcostemma acidum&lt;/em&gt; Voigt is a leafless plant of the family Apocynaceae. Plant is locally known as Somlata. It is a traditional medicinal plant used to prepare Somras. Geographically &lt;em&gt;S.acidum&lt;/em&gt; is mainly found in Bihar, West Bengal, Odisha and South India. It is mostly grown in dry rocky places. &lt;em&gt;S.acidum&lt;/em&gt; is a shrub , more branched but no leaves. The phytochemicals present in the &lt;em&gt;S.acidum&lt;/em&gt; are carbohydrates, glycosides, alkaloids, tannins, flavonoids, proteins, steroids, triterpenoids, fixed oils, mucilage, gums and waxes. Ethnomedicinally the&lt;em&gt; S.acidum&lt;/em&gt; was used in otitis, dog bite, snake bite, rabies, emesis, arthritis and leprosy. The juice of this plant having some medicinal value, so used as natural restorative for health. S.acidum stem extract inhibits spermatogenesis and reduce the sperm count. Also the extract of&lt;em&gt; S.acidum&lt;/em&gt; shown antipsychotic effect. The result of present pharmacological study shown that the &lt;em&gt;S.acidum&lt;/em&gt; possess Analgesic, Antipyretic and Antidiabetic effects.&lt;/p&gt;
</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2</style></issue><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Original Article</style></work-type><section><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">188</style></section><auth-address><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p class=&quot;rtejustify&quot;&gt;Pravanjan Kumar Tripathy&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, Manas Ranjan Mishra&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;rtejustify&quot;&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;Research Scholar, Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha, INDIA.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;rtejustify&quot;&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;Professor &amp;amp; HOD, Dept. of Pharmacognosy, Gayatri College of Pharmacy, Odisha, INDIA.&lt;/p&gt;
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