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Recent scientific understanding of the cascade of inflammatory mediators from arachidonic acid, a precursor of prostanoids, has enabled researchers to adopt new test procedures and also apply these new methods for medicinal plant research. Whole crude extracts from plants have been widely investigated in the past few decades and several plants have been found to have antiinflammatory activity. Plant-based substances are potent in treating several inflammatory disorders. Alkaloids, flavonoids, polyphenols, and terpenes are the few chemical classes that have been reported for antiinflammatory activity and a few classical examples include andrograpanin, azadirachtin, curcumin, embelin, resveratrol, and quercetin. This chapter deals with the antiinflammatory activity of various compounds of natural origin. |
