Ethnobotanical usage of plants as aphrodisiac agents in Anatolian folk medicine

Medicinal Plants as Immunosuppressive Agents in Traditional Iranian Medicine

Aphrodisiac agents from medicinal plants: an ethnopharmacological and phytochemical review

This article provides a comprehensive review of medicinal flora inhabitating throughout the world regarding their traditional usage as aphrodisiacs. Aphrodisiacs are substances that stimulate/increase sexual desire and performance.

Medicinal plants in folk medicine system of Ethiopia

Folk medicine encompasses the knowledge acquired by generations through indigenous methods of treatment. It comes from the herbal resources, animal and mineral parts which contribute to the treatment system with beliefs. It comprises the knowledge of endemic herbs transferred from one generation to the other as guarded secrets. There are magical and astrological influences invoked in this syste...

Antimicrobial activity of four medicinal plants widely used in Persian folk medicine

Background and objectives: Commiphora habessinica (O.Berg) Engl. (Burseraceae), Boswellia sacra Flueck (Burseraceae), Phoenix dactylifera L. (Arecaceae), and Doronicum glaciale (Wulfen) Nyman (Asteraceae) are of ethnomedicinal importance in Persian folk medicine and are widely used to treat infectious diseases. The aim of the present study was to investigate ...

A review of plants used in folk veterinary medicine in Italy as basis for a databank.

We report folk veterinary phytotherapy in Italy collected from ethnobotanical scientific literature of the second half of the 20th Century. References are cited together with unpublished data gathered recently in the field by the authors. The data have been placed in two databases: one organized by the names of the plant species (> 260) and the other organized by bibliographic references. This ...