PHARMACOLOGICAL PROFILE OF TURMERIC OIL: A REVIEW

Turmeric (Curcuma longa ) is a medicinal plant of the family Zingiberaceae widely growing throughout India. Turmeric oil is secondary metabolite of turmeric and obtained by steam distillation of its rhizomes. Turmeric oil a lipophilic fraction from turmeric, exhibits several therapeutic potentials. Turmeric oil chiefly comprises arturmerone and β-turmerone. During more recent decades broad spectrums of therapeutically interesting pharmacological properties of turmeric and its secondary metabolites have been reported. Recent several efforts made to explore the pharmacological profile and mechanism of action of turmeric revealed exceptionally broad spectrums of pharmacological activity profiles of turmeric oil. It is now well recognized that additive or synergistic interactions between diverse combinations of phytochemicals are involved in health benefits of vegetarian diets and herbal remedies and that regular consumption of appropriate combinations of some such edible phytochemicals with every day meals could as well be used for prevention and cure of different health problems. Critical analysis of available preclinical and clinical information on turmeric oil strongly suggests it is pharmacologically polyvalent and possess several pharmacological properties. Aim of this communication is to summarize and critically analyze such data, and to point out some possibilities for more rationally exploiting their therapeutic potential for discovering novel therapeutic leads, or for obtaining pharmacologically better standardized phyto-pharmaceuticals

Sources persanes et sanscrites sur la théorie et l'histoire de la musique de l'Inde

Full recording of a seminar held at the Department of music, Banaras Hindu University (Varanasi, India) on 25-27 March 1985. The aim of this seminar was to initiate a dialogue between two experts of Indian music history working from Sanskrit and Persian sources, resp. Dr. Prem Lata Sharma, the head of the Department of music in BHU, and Dr. Shahab Sarmadee, a fellow of the Department of history at Aligarh Muslim University. Born in 1914, the latter had been engaged by the International Society for Traditional Arts Research (ISTAR) on the first English translation of Faquirullah's Mankutuhal and Rag Darpan.La grabación completa de un seminario en el Departamento de Música, Banaras Hindu University (Benarés, India) los días 25-27 de marzo de 1985. El objetivo de este seminario fue iniciar un diálogo entre dos expertos de la historia de la música india de trabajo del sánscrito y persa fuentes, resp. el Dr. Prem Lata Sharma, jefe del Departamento de la música en el BHU y el Dr. Sarmadee Shahab, un compañero del Departamento de Historia en la Universidad Musulmana de Aligarh. Nacido en 1914, éste había sido contratado por la Sociedad Internacional para la International Society for Traditional Arts Research (ISTAR) en la primera traducción al Inglés de Mankutuhal y Rag Darpan de Faquirullah.Enregistrement intégral d'un séminaire au Département de musique, Banaras Hindu University (Bénarès, Inde) du 25 au 27 mars 1985. Le but de ce séminaire était d'initier un dialogue entre deux experts historiens de la musique indienne travaillant à partir de sources sanscrites et persanes : respectivement Dr. Prem Lata Sharma, directrice du Département de musique à BHU, et Dr. Shahab Sarmadee, associé au Département d'histoire d'Aligarh Muslim University. Ce dernier, né en 1914, a été engagé par l'International Society for Traditional Arts Research (ISTAR) pour éditer la première traduction en anglais du Mankutuhal et du Rag Darpan de Faquirullah

Marketing Spreads its Wings in Library Services A Study of Role and Strategies of Marketing Information Products and Services

In a globalized world where library and information services remain as one of the most important assets of the knowledge schemes, the marketing of library and information services has become an important professional medium to reach out to the end-users. Marketing has spread its wings to the library and information science and its strategies are proving very helpful in managing these knowledge systems. This paper focuses on the role of marketing strategies and examines the concept of 7Ps (Product, Promotion, Price, Place, People, Process and Physical Evidence) and also discusses library marketing through website outreach and client base. The paper also throws light on the constraints that library systems face in the present world of enormous data and information