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Sorrel (Rumex vesicarius L.) is an underutilized, underexploited, traditional, valuable medicinal and vegetable herb. It is wildly distributed as an environmental weed and is sparsely cultivated in market and truck gardens as a minor leafy vegetable crop in south India. Concerning nutritional and health security of developing country like India, increasing production either by introducing its cultivation in non-traditional areas or by enhancing its productivity can be an important issue in near future. It is, therefore, most essential to predict possible potential new growing areas for sorrel in India. Habitat suitability modeling provides a tool for researchers and managers to understand the potential extent of concerned species spread. One dataset for sorrel presence locations (n = 21 points) in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh states of south India was generated following

The present study was conducted to evaluate the hepatoprotective activity of medicinal plant, Basella rubra on paracetamol induced hepatotoxicity in White LegHorn cockerels. Birds were divided into five groups of six birds each and birds in group I served as untreated control and was given distilled water for 23 days continuously. The group II birds were administered with paracetamol @ 2 g/kg body weight orally from 17 th day onwards and till the end of the experiment. Birds in the group III were given silyamin @ 100mg/kg for 16 days followed by paracetamol @ 2 g/kg body weight till the end of the experiment. Birds in group IV and V were administered with Basella rubra @ 500mg and 2500 mg/kg body weight, respectively for 16 days followed by paracetamol @2 g/kg body weight till the end of the experiment along with the medicinal plant. Hemato-biochemical observations were recorded in all the groups treated. Pro inflammatory cytokines, IL6 and TNF-α were quantified using real time PCR. ALT, AST, GGT enzyme levels were found to be reversed in paracetamol intoxicated birds pre-treated with silymarin and Basella rubra Fold changes in real time PCR were found to be increased in paracetamol treated birds as compared to other groups. The study suggests that Basella rubra has the potential in reversing the paracetamol induced hepatotoxicity in chicken.