Abstract Bupleuri Herba is widely distributed and traditionally used for the similar clinical application of Bupleuri Radix in Jiangsu and Anhui province in China. To elucidate the difference of material basis between Bupliuri Radix and Bupleuri Herba, a HPLC fingerprint method combined with DAD detection was developed for effective components analysis of these two herb medicines. Both flavonoi...

BACKGROUND Muscle damage induced by unaccustomed or eccentric exercise results in delayed onset vascular stiffening. We tested the hypothesis that a 7-day supplementation of panax ginseng and salvia miltiorrhiza prior to an acute eccentric exercise could attenuate arterial stiffening. METHODS By using a double-blind study placebo-controlled randomized design, subjects were randomly assigned t...

BACKGROUND Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) is used widely to treat various diseases, including cancer. However, effective herb pairs for treating specific cancer types have so far not been identified. Here, we aimed to calculate the survival benefits of herb pairs by cluster analysis, association rules, and survival evaluation in patients with esophageal cancer (EC) treated with CHM. PATIENTS A...

To compare the mechanisms underlying mechanical responses to ephedrine and Ephedra herb, a main component of Kakkon-to, in isolated male and female rabbit urinary bladder and urethral strips, responses of isolated strips to the agents were recorded in organ bath systems. Ephedrine and Ephedra herb relaxed the female urinary bladder to the similar extent. These relaxations are reversed to contra...

background & aim: deanaie thyme (thymus daenensis celak.), a member of the lamiaceae family.  thymus in one of the most important medicinal and aromatic plants that was used in pharmaceutical, food, cosmetics hygienic industries in most of developed countries. recent studies have showed that thyme have strong antibacterial, antifungal, spasmolytic and antioxidant activities. experimental: ...

objective: to evaluate the effect of niprd-am1 on cyp3a4 in order to generate clinically significant data for its safe and efficacious use. materials and methods: niprd-am1 is a phytomedicine developed from aqueous root extracts of nauclea latifolia smith (rubiaceae) for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria. the effect of niprd-am1 on cyp3a4 was measured with and without the addition of niprd...

conclusions eoao showed an analgesic effect that may involve both the central and peripheral nervous systems. background the althaea officinalis (marshmallow) plant is traditionally used to treat skin burns and constipation and to reduce inflammation. objectives the aim of this study was to evaluate the acute and chronic analgesic effects of the essential oil of althaea officinalis leaves (eoao...

Zeilberger’s original approach My original approach was to teach the computer some elementary ‘logical reasoning’, and find enumeration schemes that way. This was done in a Maple package (still available from my website) called WILF. To check the ‘logical’ program, I also wrote an empirical program, called HERB. The Maple package HERB found enumeration schemes by testing them for permutations o...

background & aim: onosma stenosiphon has been used as herbal medicine for healing skin cuts and rashes. however, burn healing effect of this herb has not been yet reported in pharmaceutical texts. the aim of this study was to find out the effect of herb ointment on burn healing the superficial wounds post type ii burns of back and testis region in wistar rats. experimental: a total of 24 r...

BACKGROUND Fuzi-Gancao herb couple is one of the commonly used herb couples involved in the traditional Chinese medicine formulations, with radix aconiti lateralis (Fuzi in Chinese) and radix glycyrrhizae (Gancao in Chinese) as a ratio of 1:1. Alkaloids and flavonoids were considered as the main active ingredients of Fuzi-Gancao herb couple. However, no analytical methods have been reported to ...