28A. Natural Healing and Cooking

28A. Natural Healing and Cooking

In this experiential Natural Healing and Cooking workshop, attendees will get a " taste " of how to use food as medicine. This session introduces attendees to a proven, practical, and delicious way to fight and protect against obesity, diabetes, heart disease, autoimmune disorders, and cancer—through the power of the plate. The founders of the UCSD Natural Healing and Cooking program encapsulat...

Synthesis of 28a-homoselenolupanes and 28a-homoselenolupane saponins.

A practical synthesis of 28a-homo-28a-selenolupane triterpenes and the corresponding selenosaponins containing d-mannose, l-arabinose, l-rhamnose, and d-idose moieties is described. Selenium containing triterpenes were obtained from the readily available 3-O-allyl-homobetulin mesylate by nucleophilic substitution with the selenocyanate ion which upon reduction of the -SeCN group afforded the fr...

Natural wound healing and bioactive natural products

A wound is a disruption of the normal anatomical structure and function of a tissue. Wounds cure in an orderly and timely repair process which is characterized by three dynamic and interactive phases: inflammation, proliferation and the remodeling. The present review was designed to elaborate the cellular and molecular targets for plant secondary metabolites that target the various aspects of w...

Natural Healing Track

Cosmeceuticals and natural products: wound healing.

Despite several technologic and strategic advances in the field, wound care has returned to the roots of medicine and embraced some of the remedies used millennia ago. Some of the many potentially beneficial natural products include the beta-glucans, honey, aloe, cocoa, and oak bark extracts. There has recently been a surge of interest for their possible roles in wound healing.