Pauridiantha paucinervis var. Lyalli (Rubiaceae)[1][2] is a plant abounding in alkaloid compounds[3] of which the quinoline derivatives are majority. An has been isolated for first time this plant. The chemical formula compound C26H30N2O9 while its mass M = 514. This can be found and bought everywhere at markets herbalists on island. It widely known Malagasy traditional medicine. structure clar...

Aconite is one of the most toxic plants. Aconite is used by herbalists for pain relief. Toxicity occurs due to misidentification, contamination, adulteration and mis-processing. Patients usually present with classical symptoms of aconite poisoning such as perioral paraesthesia, gastrointestinal upset, and generalised burning sensation. Cardiac manifestations include hypotension and ventricular ...

Why Pharmacokinetics? Herbalists have long studied the effect of herbal medicines on the body, but have hitherto paid less attention to the effects of the body on herbal medicines. This dichotomy expresses the distinction in classical pharmacology between pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics. For a given dose of any herbal medicine, its physiological effect (or that of its constituents) will b...

Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has now been spread around the world in form of a highly contagious pandemic. The lack effective vaccines against this lethal viral infection is pushing researchers to identify potential sources from natural products that can help fight In Morocco, medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) have long used combat infectious diseases. According our knowle...

BACKGROUND Medicinal plants still play an important role in the Kurdish community. Sulaymaniyah Province in South Kurdistan (Iraq) has a great diversity of plants, including medicinal plants, yet very few scattered ethnobotanical studies conducted in Kurdistan are available in the scientific literature. Thus the study of Kurdish ethnobotany may be crucial for understanding local medicinal plant...

BACKGROUND The practice of naturopathy and Western herbal medicine (WHM) was built on traditional evidence but may be undergoing change with the advent of scientific evidence. The aims of this research were to provide a better understanding of practitioners' attitudes towards evidence, information sources, professional regulation and their knowledge about the evidence of commonly used complemen...

A recent position paper by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stresses that surveillance is critical to an effective defense against new and reemerg-ing infectious diseases and indicates that current international monitoring of such diseases is fragmentary and inadequate (1). Other major studies have also recorded the weaknesses in the present disease reporting system (2-4). T...