A Comprehensive Review On Hair Benefits Of Onion And Shikakai
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https://doi.org/10.53555/ejac.v19i1.1129Abstract
Onion is a mass-cultivated vegetable consumed worldwide for 4000 years. The genus Allium is at its most diverse in in the Mediterranean region, with China and India the largest onion-producing countries in the world. It is consumed in various forms and used in various cuisines.
Onion (Allium cepa) is a member of the family Amaryllidaceae and one of the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium. Onion has plentiful chemical compounds such as allicin, quercetin, fisetin, other sulphurous compounds: diallyl disulphide and diallyl trisulphide. Onion and its main components in specific doses have shown a lot of benefits including freeradical scavenging and antioxidant properties, anticholesterolemic, antiheavy metals toxicity, antihyperuricemia, antimicrobial, anti-gastric ulcer, and anticancer. This study summarizes numerous in-vitro and animal studies on the protective effects of onion against natural and chemical toxicities. Onion and its main components can ameliorate the toxicity of chemical agents in kidney, liver, brain, blood, heart, reproductive system, embryo, pancreas through reducing lipid peroxidation, antioxidant effect, radical-scavenging, anti-inflammatory, chelating agent, cytoprotective activities, increasing protein synthesis in damaged tissues, suppressing apoptosis, as well as modulation of PKC-????/p38MAPK, Wnt/beta-Catenin, ERK, JNK, p38 MAPK, Bcl-2, Bax, and NF-κB signaling pathways., Shikakai Acacia concinna Linn. (Leguminosae) is a medicinal plant that grows in tropical rainforests of southern Asia and thefruits of this plant are used for washing hair An attempt has been carried out in respect to the authenticity and assay of Shikakai (Acacia Concinna Linn.) fruit. Present paper reports on pharmacognosy, physico-chemical parameters including the Thin Layer Chromatography of fruit. The result shows the presence of saponin cavity inmesocarp, stone cells in pericarp region, pitted vessels were observed. The phytochemical analysis of the prepared sample by implementing organoleptic, microscopic, physicochemical, preliminary phytochemical screening and quantitative estimation shows 8.04 % then after Chromatographic study to ensure suitable parameters for its quality control.
Acacia concinna Linn. (Leguminosae) is a medicinal plant that grows in tropical rainforests of southern Asia and the fruits of this plant are used for washing hair an attempt has been carried out in respect to the authenticity and assay of Shikakai (Acacia Concinna Linn.) fruit.
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