Analysing Clusters of Consumers Who Use Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Products

Apitherapy Products for Medicinal Use.

For the past 10 years, beekeeping has increased due to a growing awareness of the disappearance of bees since Colony Collapse Disorder. Most of the disappearance of honey bees can be attributed to the use of pesticides. Apitherapy is the science and art of maintaining health with the use of products from the honeybee hive: honey, bee pollen, propolis, royal jelly, and bee venom. We have been be...

Medicinal and Aromatic Plants

Committee for Medicinal Products for Veterinary Use

5. Thiabendazole and other benzimidazole anthelmintics act by binding strongly to tubulin in the absorptive cells in the gut of parasitic worms. This interferes with the uptake of nutrients and the worms effectively starve to death. The host is less affected as the binding to mammalian tubulin is less strong and is reversible. Another pharmacological study showed that single oral doses of 25 to...

Committee for Medicinal Products for Veterinary Use

2. The Committee for Medicinal Products for Veterinary Use (CVMP) previously considered triclabendazole and agreed a toxicological ADI of 0.0015 mg/kg bw (i.e. 0.09 mg/person) based on the basis of the increased postpartum mortality of the F2 generation in the two-generation rat reproduction study (NOEL equal to 0.15 mg/kg bw/day) using a safety factor of 100. A validated analytical method base...

Medicinal and Aromatic Plants - Australia

1. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants – Australia 1.1. Natural Plant Medicines Worldwide A Historical Perspective 1.2. Phytochemicals of Therapeutic Significance 1.3. Nitrogen Containing Compounds (Alkaloids) 2. Australian Plant Evolution 2.1. Australian Medicinal Plant Use 3. Some Useful Australian Medicinal Plants 3.1. Eucalyptus Species 3.2. Melaleuca Species 3.3. Leptospermum Species 3.4. Eremop...