Wort boiling is the most energy intensive stage in brewing process. Novel wort systems have been explored to reduce primary consumption and improve quality beer flavor stability. Low thermal stress proposed for boiling, but content of dimethyl sulphide (DMS) may exceed required product threshold. A single spinning cone evaporator (SCE) enhance separation DMS minimise wortboiling. The performanc...

St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum) has been used as a medical herb for over 2000 years. Over the past two decades, its application as a standardized plant extract for treating depression has undergone rigorous scientific investigation, and its effectiveness has been shown in studies comparing it with other commonly used antidepressants and placebos. Safety and tolerability studies have reve...

The use of natural health products (NHPs) within the HIV community is high. Several NHPs have demonstrated interactions with HIV medications that could contribute to drug failure. We aimed to conduct a systematic review of clinical trials examining NHP-HIV drug interactions and their methodological characteristics. We searched electronic databases and unpublished resources independently, in dup...

An increasing number of premenopausal women use contraception whereas postmenopausal women use hormone replacement therapy (HRT). This long-term hormone therapy poses a high risk of interactions with dietary supplements. Taking estrogens at the same time as selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs), biologically-active compounds of glycine soja, Ginkgo biloba or Pimpinella anisum, may dist...

• Ein Alphabet ist eine endliche Menge von Symbolen. • Wörterüber Σ sind endliche Folgen von Symbolen aus Σ. Wörter werden manchmal 0 und manchmal von 1 an indiziert, d.h. w = w 0 · · · w n−1 bzw. w = w 1 · · · w n , je nachdem, was im Kontext praktischer ist. Bsp.: Σ = {a, b}, dann ist w = abba ein Wortüber Σ. • Die Länge eines Wortes w wird mit |w| bezeichnet und entspricht der Anzahl der Sym...

The paper presents studying sedative activity of the combined tincture motherwort and St. John's wort. wort was obtained by percolation method in a ratio 1:10. Standardization carried out with quality indicators: description, content active ingredients ethanol, relative density, dry residue. According to all indicators, met requirements State Pharmacopoeia Republic Belarus. Specific assessed ba...

In recent years, the combined use of Herbal medicines and Western drugs has been increasing. Though certain problems may occur when both types of medicines are taken together, they have not been adequately analyzed. It was reported that anticoagulation was enhanced in addition to bleeding when patients took long-term warfarin therapy in combination with Salvia miltiorrhiza (danshen), and laxati...