1. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants – Australia 1.1. Natural Plant Medicines Worldwide A Historical Perspective 1.2. Phytochemicals of Therapeutic Significance 1.3. Nitrogen Containing Compounds (Alkaloids) 2. Australian Plant Evolution 2.1. Australian Medicinal Plant Use 3. Some Useful Australian Medicinal Plants 3.1. Eucalyptus Species 3.2. Melaleuca Species 3.3. Leptospermum Species 3.4. Eremop...

Medicinal plants have played an essential role in the development of human culture. Today, contribution industries such as fine chemicals, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, drugs, and industrial raw materials is remarkable. Recent studies shown that constituents with functional properties effectively treat prevent chronic degenerative diseases. Based on importance medicinal plants, this study aimed t...

BACKGROUND Food and herbal medicinal therapy is an important aspect of Chinese traditional culture and traditional Chinese medicine. The Naxi are indigenous residents of the Ancient Tea Horse Road, and the medicine of the Naxi integrates traditional Chinese, Tibetan, and Shamanic medicinal systems, however, little is known about the medicinal dietary plants used by the Naxi people, or their eth...

BACKGROUND In Ethiopia, medicinal plants have continued to play vital role in fulfilling human and livestock healthcare needs of different communities. However, these valuable resources are being depleted mainly due to agricultural expansion and deforestation. Therefore, immediate action is required to conserve these resources and document the associated knowledge. The purpose of this study was...

ISSN 1430-95X 1 August 2004 Revision of the “WHO/IUCN/WWF Guidelines on the Conservation of Medicinal Plants” – Wolfgang Kathe & Alan Pierce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 WHO releases Guidelines on Good Agricultural and Collection Practices (GACP) for medicinal plants – Alan Pierce & Wolfgang Kathe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Sem...

BACKGROUND Although, medicinal plants have been important for women's health historically, the knowledge about such use during pregnancy in developing countries is limited. This is the first quantitative, ethnobotanical study on Malian women's use of and attitudes towards the use of medicinal plants during pregnancy. The aim of the study was to describe Malian women's use of medicinal plants du...

The National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) record of plants that have shown significant inhibitory effect in experimental tumor systems (active plants), 1960–1974, was compared with species and genera in references on medicinal folklore, including poisonous plants, to determine whether their percentages of active plants were significantly greater than those screened at random (10.4%). The percent ac...

background & aim: bushehrwith an area of about 177.1km² is situated in center of bushehr province, southern iran. existence beach line with persian gulf and helle river cause of settlement diversity in this zone. with attention in this settlement diversity in this zone transaction of this work is necessary. experimental: many specimens were collected during the vegetative seasons in 2011to ...

background & aim: during human history, most of infectious diseases have been cured with herbal drugs traditionally so that, nowadays, in most developing countries, herbal drugs play an important role in primal remedy. this study has been done according to the appropriate climate and biodiversity of plants in golestan province in order to investigate the antimicrobial activity of alcoholics...

naturally occurring substances mentioned in medieval medical literatures currently have, and will continue to have, a crucial place in drug discovery. avicenna was a persian physician who is known as the most influential medical writers in the middle ages. avicenna`s canon of medicine, the most famous books in the history of medicine, presents a clear and organized summary of all the medical kn...