Selected herbals and human exercise performance

Dietary Supplements and Sports Performance: Herbals

This is the fourth in a series of six articles to discuss the major classes of dietary supplements (vitamins; minerals; amino acids; herbs or botanicals; metabolites, constituents/extracts, or combinations). The major focus is on efficacy of such dietary supplements to enhance exercise or sport performance.

Primary Dysmenorrhea and Herbals

Dysmenorrhea, originally Greek, is explained in the literature as in the following: Dys means difficult, painful or abnormal, meno means month and rrhea means flow or discharge [1]. Clinically, it refers to pain during menstruation severe enough to prevent daily activities and to require taking analgesics [2]. Briefly, it means painful periods. One of the most important gynaecological complaint...

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Medieval herbals: the illustrative traditions

This nicely produced volume offers both more and less than its title promises. Begun as a dissertation on a group of late medieval herbals in Latin and French, including Wellcome 626, it studies the iconography of plants in a wide variety of manuscripts, from the Johnson papyrus, Wellcome 5753, written in Greek around AD 400, via Arabic manuscripts to Latin manuscripts of the fifteenth century ...

Herbals: The Connection Between Horticulture and Medicine

The prehistoric discovery that certain plants cause harm and others have curative powers is the origin of the healing professions and its practitioners (priest, physician, and apothecary), as well as professions devoted to plants (botany and horticulture). The description of plants and their properties and virtues (termed herbals in the 16th century) became an invaluable resource for the physic...