Chemical Composition and sedative effect of mimosa pudica
- Author:
Nguyen Thi Xuan
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
mimosa pudica
- MeSH:
Medicine, Traditional;
chemistry;
Hypnotics and Sedatives
- From:Journal of Medicinal Materials - Hanoi
2004;9(4):128-130
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
The extracts of the leaf of Mimosa pudica contain tannin, flavonoids, phytosterols, alcaloids and saponins. Aqueous and alcoholic extracts of the leaf exhibit sedative and hypnotic effects , but in alcoholic extract these effects were stronger
