Abstract Background Symphytum L. (comfrey, Boraginaceae) has a longstanding use as remedy to alleviate the clinical symptomatology in arthritis, strains, contusions or sprains. In recent years, considerable research efforts were put into assessing chemico-biological profile of unexploited species, with aim extend medicinal valences genus new pharmacological applications. However, date there are...

Recently Nutrition and Food Chemistry researches have been focused on plants and their products or their secondary metabolites having anti-alzheimer, anti-cancer, anti-aging, and antioxidant properties. Among these plants Salvia L. (Lamiaceae) species come into prominence with their booster effects due to high antioxidant contents, which have over 900 species in the world and 98 in Turkey. Some...

Recently Nutrition and Food Chemistry researches have been focused on plants and their products or their secondary metabolites having anti-alzheimer, anti-cancer, anti-aging, and antioxidant properties. Among these plants Salvia L. (Lamiaceae) species come into prominence with their booster effects due to high antioxidant contents, which have over 900 species in the world and 98 in Turkey. Some...

One of the leading causes of death in the world is cerebrovascular disease. Numerous Chinese traditional medicines, such as Cortex Moutan (root bark of Paeonia suffruticosa Andrew) and Radix Salviae miltiorrhizae (root and rhizome of Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge), protect against cerebrovascular diseases and exhibit anti-atherosclerotic effects. Traditional medicines have been routinely used fo...

Ischemic heart disease (IHD) is the leading cause of death worldwide and remains a major life-threatening factor in humans. Apoptosis has been implicated in the pathogenesis of IHD. The Chinese herbal formula Huo Luo Xiao Ling Dan (HLXLD), one of the commonly used Chinese herbal formulas, consists of Salviae miltiorrhizae, Angelica sinensis, Gummi olibanum, and Commiphora myrrha, with a wide sp...

Currently, it is important to explore any feasible tool to represent the integrated in vivo process of a traditional Chinesemedicine (TCM) to understand its clinical dosage regimen from ancient empirical therapy. Herein, we put forward a strategy to characterize the integrated pharmacokinetic properties of multiple-component cardiovascular herbal medicines with a flow injection chemiluminescenc...

Endometriosis is a common mysterious and fascinating gynaecological condition with diverse clinical manifestations, highly variable and unpredictable clinical course with decreased quality of life. Clinically, Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge (SMB, Chinese Danshen) has been applied to treat endometriosis and get satisfactory results. The present study was aimed to explore the effects of the extracts o...

BGE., commonly known as “Danshen” 丹参), is an important Chinese medicinal herb used to promote blood flow to overcome blood stasis and to cool the blood to resolve abscesses in traditional Chinese medicine. Because of the increase of cardiovascular diseases in modern society, it is now experiencing a particularly strong and rapid upsurge in usage. In chemical studies over several decades, it has...