Charring Medicinal Plants: A traditional method of preparing phytomedicines in Southwestern Nigeria

Update on Phytomedicines Medicinal Plants and Phytomedicines. Linking Plant Biochemistry and Physiology to Human Health

The past decade has witnessed a tremendous resurgence in the interest and use of medicinal plant products, especially in North America. Surveys of plant medicinal usage by the American public have shown an increase from just about 3% of the population in 1991 to over 37% in 1998 (Brevoort, 1998). The North American market for sales of plant medicinals has climbed to about $3 billion/year (Glase...

Antidiabetic potential of some less commonly used plants in traditional medicinal systems of India and Nigeria

The incidence of diabetes mellitus continue to rise annually all over the world with India and Nigeria having recorded cases of 65.1 and 3.9 million respectively in 2013 and expected to increase by a large amount in 2035. Hyperglycemia is a pre-condition for the development of diabetic complications and is accompanied by an increase in the production of free radicals. The present available trea...

Traditional Medicinal Plants: Use in Oral hygiene

Oral hygiene is an integral part of health of a person and when neglected it results in various oral disorders.Due to high emergence of oral infections, the fast developing resistance by bacteria to antibiotics, the adverse effects of the chemical based remedies currently used in dentistry and financial considerations there is a need for alternative prevention and treatment options that are saf...

Antioxidant capacity of Macaronesian traditional medicinal plants.

The use of many traditional medicinal plants is often hampered by the absence of a proper biochemical characterization, essential to identify the bioactive compounds present. The leaves from five species endemic to the Macaronesian islands with recognized ethnobotanical applications were analysed: Apollonias barbujana (Cav.) Bornm., Ocotea foetens (Ainton) Baill, Prunus azorica (Mouill.) Rivas-...

Medicinal Plants as Immunosuppressive Agents in Traditional Iranian Medicine