Natural Products, Medicinal Plants and Traditional Medicines

Khem Raj Joshi has his expertise in evaluation and passion in improving and standardization of traditional medicine via natural products. His contribution

creates new pathways for the investigation of medicine along with the socio economic improvement of rural people, who are directly dependent in the traditional medicine. he great role for the development of Nepalese herbal medicine and herbal medicine research. Great achievement for the isolation of the 9 new compounds and has isolated about 150 chemical compounds (some of them are isolated for the first time) from the different Nepalese medicinal plants. His study performed the α-amylase and α-glucosidase inhibitory activity analysis of fifteen Nepalese medicinal plant selected on the basis of traditional uses, availability, chemical and biological virginity. The antioxidant activity analysis of more than 30 Nepalese medicinal plants and more than 40 isolated compounds for the first time. On the basis of his great contribution Nepalese government awarded as a “Science and Technology Youth Award-2016” and “Nepal Bidhya Bhusan Padak-Ka (the most prestigious literary award to be presented from the government of Nepal, September-8, 2016) By Her Excellency Right Honourable President of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal.