Background: Prescription is a written instruction given to a patient regarding of medicines. Quality of prescription has significant influence on patients' wellbeing and health outcomes. A large number of prescription quality assessing tools have been derived to analyze the quality of prescription. Objective: This study was conducted to analyze the quality of prescription in patients of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease(COPD) at a tertiary care hospital with the use of Prescription Quality Index (PQI) tool and to evaluate the reliability of PQI tool. Materials and Methods: A prospective observational cross-sectional study was conducted to medicine outpatient department of tertiary care hospital. All patients of COPD attending for four months were enrolled. All the demographic details and prescription details with medical history were recorded. Total scores and criteria wise PQI scores were obtained for each prescription............

Keywords: Quality of prescription, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Prescription Quality Index tool.

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Diabetes mellitus is one of the most common endocrine metabolic disorders. It caused significant mortality due to its complications. Insulin and oral antidiabetic drugs associated with a number of serious adverse effects. The search for more effective and safer hypoglycemic agents is one of the important areas of investigation. Medicinal plants possessed hypoglycemic effects by many mechanisms. The current review discussed the medicinal plants with antidiabetic effect with special focus on their mechanism of action.

Keywords: Diabetes, Insulin, Phytoconstituents, Pancrease, Blood glucose, Beta cell, Antidiabetic, Hypoglycaemic, Medicinal plant.

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Fritillaria imperialis is a source of various pharmaceutically active components included steroidal alkaloids, saponins, terpenoids, glycosides and many other compounds. It possessed anticholinergic, cardiovascular, anticancer, insecticidal, platelet aggregation inhibition and many other pharmacological effects. The current review discussed the chemical constituents and pharmacological effects of Fritillaria imperialis.

Keywords: chemical constituents, pharmacological effects, Fritillaria imperialis

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The recent studies showed that many plants affected the central nervous system and exerted many pharmacological effects including sedative, anticonvulsant, antidepressant, antipsychotic, anxiolytic, anti-Parkinson, memory-enhancing, locomotor and neuroprotective effects. The current review discuss the central nervous effects of the medicinal plants with special focus on their mode of action.

Keywords: Medicinal plants, CNS, sedative, Anticonvulsant, Antidepressant, Antiparkinson, Antipsychotic, Anxiolytic, Memory-enhancing, Locomotor, Neuroprotective.

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