Mining Sudanese Medicinal Plants for Antiprotozoal Agents

Anticancer agents from medicinal plants

Cancer is a major public health burden in both developed and developing countries. Plant derived agents are being used for the treatment of cancer. Several anticancer agents including taxol, vinblastine, vincristine, the camptothecin derivatives, topotecan and irinotecan, and etoposide derived from epipodophyllotoxin are in clinical use all over the world. A number of promising agents such as f...

Medicinal Plants as Anti-Ulcer Agents

Peptic ulcer disease (PUD) is considered as one of the common diseases in the world. Treatment of peptic ulcer with synthetic drugs such as proton pump inhibitors, H2 receptor antagonists and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs has shown adverse effects, relapses, drug interactions. Medicinal plants containing active chemical constituents are useful in prevention and treatment of variou...

Medicinal Plants as Hypocholes-terolemic Agents

Screening for Antibacterial and Antiprotozoal Activities of Crude Extracts Derived from Mexican Medicinal Plants

Background: Crataegus mexicana, Hyptis albida, Larrea tridentata, Ocimum baislicum, Prunus serotina, and Smilax spp. are used in Mexican traditional medicine to treat respiratory and gastrointestinal diseases such as flu, cough, diarrhea, dysentery, and other parasitic or microbial infections. Therefore this study was aimed at the pharmacological prospection of these plants against eleven bacte...

Medicinal Plants as Immunosuppressive Agents in Traditional Iranian Medicine