One of the horizons that always directs human to discover unknowns is nature and its valuable substances. Although it is a new branch in medicine but it has a valuable place from ancient times. During continuous years, natural drugs especially herbal drugs had became the base and even in some cases the only way for treatment and their primary substances are still being used in pharmacological i...

Three studies compared beliefs about natural and late blooming positive traits with those acquired through personal effort, extrinsic rewards or medicine. Young children (5-6 years), older children (8-13 years), and adults all showed a strong bias for natural and late blooming traits over acquired traits. All age groups, except 8- to 10-year-olds, treated natural and late-blooming traits as fix...

Roland Pálffy , Roman Gardlík , Július Hodosy 3, , Lukác Halcák, Peter Celec 2, 3, * BiomeD Research and Publishing Group Department of Molecular Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic Institute of Pathophysiology, Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic Department of Animal Physiology and Ethology, Faculty of Natural...

In Japanese hospitals or pharmacies, crude drugs and natural products are used as the components of kampo medicine and dietary supplements. Clinical pharmacy can provide information such as the efficacy, adverse action, or interactions of crude drugs or natural products as well as chemical drugs. However, it is very difficult for a clinical pharmacist without a knowledge of pharmacognosy to off...

BACKGROUND Complex diseases seriously threaten human health. Drug discovery approaches based on "single genes, single drugs, and single targets" are limited in targeting complex diseases. The development of new multicomponent drugs for complex diseases is imperative, and the establishment of a suitable solution for drug group-target protein network analysis is a key scientific problem that must...

If there is one feature more than another which distinguishes the civilisation of to-day from that of former ages, it is the rapid rise out of comparatively insignificant beginnings of the vast and imposing structure of modern science. The latter part of the nineteenth, century especially is characterised by the remarkable developments that have taken place in the natural sciences and in scient...

brave but stupid, those living in hot countries intelligent but cowardly, etc. The categorization of the same signs in medical theory and practice is investigated in chapter 4: they are used to construct psycho-physical types and observed, especially in the Hippocratic Epidemics, in connection with the predisposition to certain illnesses. Sassi makes much of the fact that the famous passage des...

In this issue, as well as in the next issue of the Journal of Innate Immunity, a series of review articles on NK cells is published, summarizing some of the recent research activities within this growing field of research. Several leading scientists have made seminal contributions to the two issues. In the first issue (Vol. 3, Issue 3, 2011), a series of reviews relating to the molecular specif...

Colonic drug delivery has gained remarkable importance for the delivery of the drugs for the treatment of local diseases associated with the colon. To achieve successful colonic delivery, colon targeting is of prime importance. Various natural therapies, available for the treatment of colonic diseases like ulcerative colitis, Intestinal bowel syndrome, colon cancer, diverticulitis, etc., are ba...

1 Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, Ministry of Education, Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, No. 229 Taibai North Road, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710069, China 2Department of Nutrition and Metabolism, National Institute for Nutrition and Food Safety, China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 27 Nanwei Roa...