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PhytoResp database captures the following information:
Occurrence of families, plant parts used and diseases reported:
Occurrence of families, plant parts used and diseases reported:
Fig.: Top 15 families on the basis of number of plants in our database that belong to them.
These plants belong to 109 different families with the highest number belonging to Fabaceae (23 plants), followed by Asteraceae (13 plants). In this chart, we provided the list of top 15 families to which these plants belong.
Fig.: Chart representing the plant part used in treatment of respiratory diseases.
From our analysis, it was determined that in most cases the administered plant parts are the leaves of the plants (24.5%), followed by root (15.5%) and fruit (14.5%). In this chart, we provided the plant parts used to treat respiratory disorders.
Fig.: Chart representing the top 10 respiratory diseases against which the plants are reported.
The plants were reported to be used against 34 respiratory diseases. From the data, it was seen that a large number of the plants are being used in the treatment of fever (116 plants) followed by cold (79 plants) and asthma (61 plants). The research articles also reported plants used against bronchitis, tuberculosis, sinusitis, asthma, etc.
Fig.: Chemical superclasses of phytochemicals predicted by ClassyFire
On the basis of the chemical classification obtained by ClassyFire, the 1799 phytochemicals have been hierarchically categorized into 13 superclasses. Among the 13 superclasses, Lipids and lipid-like molecules, Phenylpropanoids and polyketides, and Organic oxygen compounds are the top three with 647, 342, and 170 phytochemicals, respectively.
Fig.: Chart showing the percentage of plants which do not have any report against COVID-19 with and without anti-inflammatory properties
Our analysis determined that there are about 145 plants (87.9%) with anti-inflammatory properties and 20 plants (12.1%) without anti-inflammatory properties.
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