honey is a by-product of flower nectar and the upper aero-digestive tract of the honey bee, which is concentrated through a dehydration process inside the bee hive. honey has a very complex chemical composition that varies depending on the botanical source. it has been used both as food and medicine since ancient times. human use of honey is traced to some 8000 years ago as depicted by stone ag...

doctrine of traditional medicine in iran is knowledge mixed with the art and accumulated wisdom of aryan people mixed with the greek philosophy and tested based on experience during years of the iranian history and has been beneficial in the field of health, prevention, diagnosis and treatment.in traditional iranian medicine the health has a priority to treatment, and according to life style, p...

1 Beijing Key Laboratory of Innovative Drug Discovery of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Natural Medicine) and Translational Medicine, Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China, 2 Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substances and Resource Utilization of Chinese Herbal Medicine, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China, 3 Z...

This work presents a study of the importance of natural products, especially those derived from higher plants, in terms of drug development. It describes the main strategies for obtaining drugs from natural sources, fields of knowledge involved, difficulties and perspectives. It also includes a brief discussion of the specific situation in Brazil regarding the use of, trade in, and research int...

In this paper, the author proposes a new conceptual framework for technology and reclassifies technology into hard and soft. Soft-tech refers to technology derived from outside of natural science disciplines and from outside of conventional science. Through discussions on technological competitiveness, new institutional innovation, Chinese traditional medicine, and the gap between developed and...

Modern oncology is a rapidly growing area in medicine. Cancer is a disease diagnosed on the basis of cellular changes hence objectivity takes the lead. Clinical observation, detailed examination and some feasibility studies were conducted in Ayurvedic methods to understand and identify cancer systematically. Abdominal presentation as tumour is discussed since it is one of the major area for cli...

The adulteration and Substitution of the herbal drugs is the burning problem in herbal industry and it has caused a major treat in the research on commercial natural products. The deforestation and extinction of many species and incorrect identification of many plants has resulted in adulteration and substitution of raw drugs. The concept of substitution prevailed ages back and in Ayurveda we c...

Popular approach to the history of medicine rests on naive assumptions that: 1) only the present state of medical knowledge can be counted as scientific and only those elements of the former knowledge and practice which fitted the body of contemporary science should be regarded by the historians of medicine (presentism); 2) medical sciences, like the other natural sciences, portray natural phen...

1Department of Foods and Nutrition, College of Natural Sciences, Kookmin University, Seoul, 2Department of Internal Medicine, 3Institute of Human Genomic Study, College of Medicine, Korea University, Ansan Hospital, Ansan, 4Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Korea University, Guro Hospital, Seoul, 5Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Korea University, Anam H...