Botete (Cleome spinosa Jacq.

) Extract For Alopecia Androgenetica or Baldness

Botany
Botete is an annual, hairy, strongly-scented herb. Stems are erect, 30 to 90 centimeters in height,
simple or branched. Leaves are alternate, palmately compound with 5- to 7-foliate, on petioles
longer than the leaflets, commonly with stipular spines. Leaflets are entire, elliptic to obovate or
rarely oblanceolate, 2 to 10 centimeters long, and pointed at both ends. Racemes are 10 to 30
centimeters long. Sepals are linear-lanceolate and 5 to 10 millimeters long. Petals are clawed,
purple or rarely white, oval or rounded, 2.5 to 3.5 centimeters long. Fruit is a narrow capsule, 6
to 10 centimeters long, with pale and finely reticulated seeds.
Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Compositions / Hair Growth: Patent application made for
Cleome spinosa extract use in pharmaceutical preparation and cosmetic composition. Invention
uses a Cleome spinosa extract as an active ingredient for extending the growth of hair follicles.
Constituents
- Oil of grains rich in glucosinolates.
- Yields flavone, flindulatin, and five novel diterpene cembranes, called cleospinol A, B, C, D
and the 3'-hydroxy-isopentan-10-oate ester of cleospinol A

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Molluscidal Effect of Kalachuchi (Plumeria acuminata W. T. Ait.) on Golden Apple

Snails(Pomacea Canaliculata)
Botany
Kalachuchi is a small, deciduous tree, 3 to 7 meters high, with a crooked trunk, smooth and
shining stems, succulent, with abundant sticky, milky latex. Bark has a smooth, papery outer
layer which is grey, shining, and constantly exfoliating in small flakes. Wood is yellowish-white
and soft. Branches are thick, fleshy, swollen and leafy at the tips. Leaves are crowded at the
terminal end of the branch, commonly oblong in shape, 20 to 40 centimeters long, 7 centimeters
wide, spirally arranged at the ends of the branches. Flowers are numerous, fragrant and large, the
upper portion whitish, while the inner lower portion yellow, 5 to 6 centimeters long. Fruits are
linear-oblong or ellipsoid follicles, with a pointed tip, 15 to 20 centimeters long, 1.5 to 2
centimeters in diameters. Seeds are numerous and winged
Cytotoxic / Antibacterial / Molluscicidal: From the heartwood, study yielded plumericin and
isoplumericin which molluscicidal, cytotoxic and antibacterial activity.
Constituents
- Flowers suppose to be source of perfume known as "Frangipiani."
- Bark contains a bitter glucoside, plumierid (2%).
- Latex contains resins, caoutchouc and calcium salts of plumieric acid: cerotinic acid and lupeol.
- Leaves contain a volatile oil.
- Phytochemical screening of methanol extract yielded steroids, flavanoids, tannins, alkaloids,
and glycosides.
- Powdered leaf yielded alkaloids, cyanogenic glycosides, phenolic compounds, flavonoids,
terpenoids, tannins, and saponins.

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The Feasibility of Using Sarsalida(Linn.) as Glue

Botany
Sarsalida is a slender, spreading or ascending, smooth, branched, annual herb, with branches as
long as 10 to 40 centimeters. Leaves are opposite or whorled, spatulate, oblanceolate to oblongobovate, 1 to 3 centimeters long, and up to 1 centimeter wide. Flowers are white and fascicled,
with slender stalks up to 1 centimeter long. Sepals are 3 to 3.5 millimeters long. Capsule is
ellipsoid, a little shorted than the sepals. Seeds are numerous and covered with raised tubular
points.
Immunomodulating / GOA2 Peptic Polymer: Study investigated the structure and
immunomodulating properties of peptic polymer GOIA2, previously isolated from G.
oppositifolius. Enzymatic treatments yielded GOA2-I, GOA2-II, and GOA2-III. On testing,
GOA2-I showed significantly greater effects than native GOA2m and also exhibited more potent
intestinal immune stimulating activity. It also induced secretion of proinflammatory cytokines.
Constituents
Study of aerial parts of Mollugo spergula yielded two novel triterpenoid saponins - spergulin A
and spergulin B.
Exceptionally rich in iron and a good source of calcium.
Phytochemical screening yielded alkaloids, saponins, and terpenoids in excess; together with
tannins, glycosides, steroids, and flavonoids.
Phytochemical screening of methanolic extract yielded carbohydrates, alkaloids, tannins,
flavonoids, and saponins.
Methanolic extract of whole plant isolated an amino acid derivative, L-()-(N-transcinnamoyl)-arginine, along with kaempferol 3-O- galactopyranoside, isorhamnetin 3-O--Dxylopyranosyl-(12)--D-galactopyranoside, vitexin, vicenin-2, adenosine and Lphenylalanine.

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How to Make Homemade Floorwax using Corn(Zea mays L.)

Botany
Mais is a very coarse, erect, tall grass, 1.5 to 2 meters high. Stem is solid, with a soft and spongy
center. Leaves are numerous and close together, 30 to 100 centimeters long and 2 to 10
centimeters wide, linear lanceolate. Male inflorescence is erect and terminal; the female
inflorescence on the axils of the leaves, cylindric and large. The individual fruit (grain) is is
roundish or reniform, compressed, smooth, shining, yellow, white, reddish or even purplishblack.
Cornstarch Polymer
Starch is a polymer of glucose sugar molecules strung together into a long chain. If the chain is
branched, the starch molecule is called an amylopectin, whereas if it's straight it's called amylose.
Each glucose molecule has hydroxide groups that can form weak bonds with water or other
starch molecules. That's how starch polymers associate to form small granules that dissolve
neither in water nor most other solvents. If you heat water with starch granules, however, the
granules gradually fall apart, and the starch polymers mix with the water to form a thick paste.

Constituents
- Analysis showed percentage of carbohydrate is high, with a good content of protein and fat,
with a higher percentage of protein and fat than any other cereal.
- Corn lacks gluten.
- Constituents: Flavonoids, chlorogenic acid, saponins, volatile alkaloid, allantoin, tannins, resin.
- Corn silk yields maizeric acid, 2%; fixed oil; resin; sugar; mucilage and salts.

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