Elements of Materia Medica and Pharmacy

Materia Medica Used in Jaundice Based on Persian Medicine

Jaundice is recognized by increased bilirubin level of blood and yellow appearance in skin, sclera and mucous membrane. Natural products have been used for treatment of jaundice for a long time and Persian Medicine can be a good source of natural drugs for this purpose. This study was done to find the materia medica used for jaundice based on Persian medicine (PM) texts including The Canon of M...

Notes on Materia Medica and Pharmacy

insufficiently the departments of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, so that the student preparing for an examination in Materia Medica would find it necessary to seek for further information elsewhere on these subjects. Dr. F. T. Roberts has now issued that part of the notes for his course ?f lectures on Materia Medica at University College, which relates to Materia Medica, Pharmacy and Ph...

Cytotoxic activity screening of some medicinal plants from south of Iran

Background and objectives: Cancer is a public health problem all over the world. Herbal medicines have a vital role in the prevention and treatment of cancer and large numbers of plants and their isolated constituents have shown potential anticancer activity. Methods: Twenty seven medicinal plants from southern Iran provinces have been extracted with methanol and screened for their cytotoxic ac...

The effect of some cosolvents and surfactants on viability of cancerous cell lines

Improving the solubility of non-soluble herbal materials is an issue of interest in cell culture based experiments. Evaluating the biological activity of these materials could become possible with the aid of cosolvents/surfactants which obviously should have little or no cytotoxic activity. In the present study, the cytotoxic activity of six cosolvents/surfactants: ethanol, methanol, Tween 20 a...

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