OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of Chamomilla recutita on the healing of ulcers in rats. STUDY DESIGN A 5-mm wound was inflicted on the tongue of 36 rats. Treatment group animals were treated topically with 0.04 mL/day of chamomile ointment, whereas control group animals were not treated. Animals were sacrificed after 3, 7 or 10 days. Semi-quantitative analysis...

AIM/BACKGROUND The emergence of drug-resistant pathogens has drawn attention on medicinal plants for potential antimicrobial properties. The objective of the present study was the investigation of the antimicrobial activity of five plant essential oils on multidrug resistant Gram-negative bacteria. MATERIALS AND METHODS Basil, chamomile blue, origanum, thyme, and tea tree oil were tested agai...

BACKGROUND A variety of objective and subjective methods exist to assess insomnia. The Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) was developed to provide a brief self-report instrument useful to assess people's perception of sleep complaints. The ISI was developed in English, and has been translated into several languages including German. Surprisingly, the psychometric properties of the German version hav...

This paper describes a crosslinguistic disfluency perception experiment. We tested the recognizability of pause fillers and partial words in English, German and Mandarin. Subjects were speakers of English with no knowledge of Mandarin or German. We found that subjects could identify disfluent from fluent utterances at a level above chance. Pause fillers were easier to identify than partial word...

1 Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy, University of Pécs, Medical School, Pécs, Hungary, 2 Department of Pharmacognosy, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary, 3 Department of Pharmacognosy, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary, 4 Department of Surgery, Clinical Center, University of Pécs, Medical School, Pécs, Hungary, 5 Interdisciplinary Centre for Natural Products, University of Szeg...

introduction: polycystic ovary syndrome (pcos) is a complex endocrine and metabolic disorder associated with ovulatory dysfunction. presently, little is known about the primary factors that initiate pcos. chamomile flowers are used in alternative medicine for its anti-spasmolytic and anti-inflammatory effects. antispasmodic properties of chamomile ease menstrual cramps and lessen the possibilit...

Bird's nest is widely used in Asia and good for consumers' health. The paper focused on optimizing beverage formulation that contain Salanganes'Nest harvesting at Yen Island, Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa province, Vietnam. input factors such as Nests essence, Ginkgo biloba, Chamomile, Glucosamine were studied. Target functions pH, viscosity, DPPH free radical scavenging activity. results showed the opt...

PURPOSE Prisoners are at a particularly high risk of suicide. In contrast to other psychosocial risk factors it remains unclear to what degree the risk of suicide differs between prisoners with local citizenship and foreigners. In order to provide more detailed information for suicide prevention in prisons, this study aims to compare suicide rates (SR) between these populations in German crimin...