Dendrobium officinale is a traditional Chinese medicine and nourishing food in China. Polysaccharide content was used as criterion for evaluating the quality of D. officinale. At present, epiphytic cultivation main method In present study, collected under various growing conditions to compare its polysaccharide an attempt discover most favorable officinale, which can be guide artificial product...

this study was carried out to evaluate the antimicrobial and antioxidant effectiveness of different extracts from aerial parts of six salvia species including salvia ceratophylla, salvia chorassanica, salvia leriifolia, salvia macrosiphon, salvia chloroleuca and salvia virgata. the effect of the extracts against 3 gram positive and 3 gram negative bacteria was tested by the micro dilution metho...

Salvia miltiorrhiza, which is commonly known as Danshen, is a traditional Chinese herbal medicine. To illustrate its physiological and biochemical responses to salt stress and to evaluate the feasibility of cultivating this plant in saline coastal soils, a factorial experiment under hydroponic conditions was arranged on the basis of a completely randomised design with three replications. Five s...

Salvia miltiorrhiza is an important medicinal plant with great economic and medicinal value. The complete chloroplast (cp) genome sequence of Salvia miltiorrhiza, the first sequenced member of the Lamiaceae family, is reported here. The genome is 151,328 bp in length and exhibits a typical quadripartite structure of the large (LSC, 82,695 bp) and small (SSC, 17,555 bp) single-copy regions, sepa...

in this study, srap molecular maker approach was performed to investigate genetic diversity in the salvia genus. a total of 205 dna bands were produced from pcr amplification of 11 salvia species and populations using 25 selective primer combinations, of which 204 polymorphic genetic loci accounted. the total number of amplified fragments ranged from 3 to 15. the genetic similarities of 11 coll...

Dried, fresh and glycolic extracts of Zingiber officinale were obtained to evaluate the action against G. mellonella survival assay against Enterococcus faecalis infection. Eighty larvae were divided into: 1) E. faecalis suspension (control); 2) E. faecalis + fresh extract of Z. officinale (FEO); 3) E. faecalis + dried extract of Z. officinale (DEO); 4) E. faecalis + glycolic extract of Z. offi...

Ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) is a well known and widely used herb, especially in Asia, which contains several interesting bioactive constituents and possesses health promoting properties. In this study, the antioxidant activities of methanol extracts from the leaves, stems and rhizomes of two Zingiber officinale varieties (Halia Bentong and Halia Bara) were assessed in an effort to compa...

Aim: Jamaica is rich in medicinal plants. Guaiacum officinale is the “National Flower”, with reported uses in folk medicine for the treatment of various conditions including inflammation. In our search for plants with anticancer and anti-infective properties, we evaluated Guaiacum officinale for activity against HIV-1. Methodology: The leaf, seed and twig extracts of G. officinale were screened...

BACKGROUND In traditional medicine zingiber officinale used to regulate female menstural cycle and treat male infertility. Recent studies have suggested the possible role of ginger extract in improving the testicular damage of busulfan. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of zingiber officinale on the sperm parameters, testosterone level and the volume of the testes an...

This study investigated the hepatoprotective effects of polyphenols from Zingiber officinale on streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats by assessing liver antioxidant enzymes, carbohydrate-metabolizing enzymes and liver function indices. Initial oral glucose tolerance test was conducted using 125 mg/kg, 250 mg/kg, and 500 mg/kg body weight of both free and bound polyphenols from Z. officinale. 28 ...