MEDICINAL PLANTS OF BULGARIA

Medicinal Plants

Medicinal plants

this comparison is not made here but a comparative study of the two drugs would make a most interesting investigation. One is also reminded of Rauwolfia from Ancient India which turned out to have a hypotensive action. The author has written a very interesting and useful book, but it is a pity that the documentation is rather limited. There has of late been a resurgence of interest in "natural"...

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detection of volatile compounds of medicinal plants with some nano-sorbents using modified or new methodologies and investigation of antioxidant activity of their methanolic extracts

in this work, a novel and fast method for direct analysis of volatile compounds (davc) of medicinal plants has been developed by holding a filament from different parts of a plant in the gc injection port. the extraction and analysis of volatile components of a small amount of plant were carried out in one-step without any sample preparation. after optimization of temperature, extraction time a...

Safety of medicinal plants

The last decade has witnessed a great revival of interest in the use of herbal medicines both in the developed as well as developing countries. Almost 50% of the medicines we use today are derived straight from plants and 25% of the prescription drugs have their genesis of tropical plants*. According to WHO, 80% of the world population rely chiefly on plant based traditional medicines specially...