Background & Aim:Dorema   ammoniacum D. Don. (ammoniac plant) belongs to   Apiaceae family and Dorema genus. It is one of the most important   endemic medicinal plants in its family which grows in the arid and semi-arid   areas in the regions of Iran and some of the Asian countries such as   Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. This study was carried...

Our health-care system would be incomplete without the use of medicinal herbs. In days before modern medicine, several communities created medical knowledge systems known as “traditional medicine,” “indigenous or “folk medicine.” The properties plants and plant-based products are widely accepted. There a variety approaches available across world, including allopathic, homoeopathic, Ayurvedic, C...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW The transition of healthcare from pediatric to adult settings has become more significant over the past 20 years as the survival of young people with chronic illness and disability has increased and healthcare delivery has become more complex. This review examines the evidence from recent studies and position statements to determine the current issues relating to transition. ...

Among the sources of homoeopathic medicines vegetable kingdom is major source. Compositae family one largest plant giving more than 60 to homoeopathy. Plants compositae are important in herbal and folk medicine since antiquity. In system medicine, from Asteraceae were used for shock, spasms, convulsions, traumas, bruises, liver blood disorders, respiratory problems, fever, sepsis worm infestati...

Introduction Many regenerative medicine products are based on the delivery of biological cells or living tissue constructs to patients. This presents new challenges in product manufacture including a lack of production platforms for controlled scale up and a lack of timely measurement methods for process control (and characterisation of product safety and efficacy). These challenges must be ove...

The antimicrobial activities of aqueous ethanol and chloroform extracts of three Baccharis species currently used in Northern Chile folk medicine for the treatment of several infectious and inflammatory disorders were tested against Gram-positive and negative bacteria and fungal spp. using the agar-disc diffusion assay. The results indicated that the activity was more pronounced against Gram-po...

salvia leriifolia benth. (vernacular names such as nuruozak and jobleh) is a perennial herbaceous plant that grows exclusively in south and tropical regions of khorasan and semnan provinces, i. r. iran. unlike other species of salvia genus, the chemical constituents of s. leriifolia are not well recognized. the stem oil of the plant consisted mainly both monoterpenes and sesquiterpenes, while i...

Background & Aim:Dorema   ammoniacum D. Don. (ammoniac plant) belongs to   Apiaceae family and Dorema genus. It is one of the most important   endemic medicinal plants in its family which grows in the arid and semi-arid   areas in the regions of Iran and some of the Asian countries such as   Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. This study was carried...

BACKGROUND Nu people are the least populous ethnic group in Yunnan Province of China and most are distributed in Gongshan County, NW Yunnan. Animal production plays an important role in Nu livelihoods and the Nu people have abundant traditional knowledge of animal management and ethnoveterinary practices. This study documents the animal diseases, ethnoveterinary plant remedies and related tradi...

Indigenous plant resources provide rural communities with non-timber forest products that provide energy, food, shelter and medicine. Indigenous plant users in the rural communities have developed selective management methods to sustain plant resources. The most common management methods are restrictions on the cutting of green plants, harvesting of some species during certain seasons, exclusiv...