background & aim: iran has a long history in ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology. the indigenous people in yahyaabad area, is located in the conserved area of the karkas mountains, are used many plants and natural material for treatment their diseases.  yahyaabad area is an important part of central mountains of kashan, central iran. there are many plant species in this area which have medici...

Woodfordia fruticosa is a high demand medicinal plant for pharmaceutics and dye industries. The plant is distributed in North-eastern India. This review highlights the spectacular properties of this plant. Flowers of W. fruticosa have been used traditionally in the treatment of dysentery, diarrhea, other bowel complaints, internal haemorrhages, leucorrhoea and menorrhagia. Externally, powdered ...

Herbal medicines are used therapeutically all around the world and the use of medicinal plants for management of diseases is probably the oldest existing method that humanity tries to handle the illness. Herbal medicinal products are considered to be free from side effects and less toxic on comparison with synthetic drugs. However, screening of plants for their activities is very essential to e...

The use of plants as natural medicines in the treatment of type II diabetes mellitus (T2DM) has long been of special interest. In this work, we developed a docking score-weighted prediction model based on drug-target network to evaluate the efficacy of medicinal plants for T2DM. High throughput virtual screening from chemical library of natural products was adopted to calculate the binding affi...

Medicinal plants are globally valuable sources of herbal products, and they are disappearing at a high speed. This article reviews global trends, developments and prospects for the strategies and methodologies concerning the conservation and sustainable use of medicinal plant resources to provide a reliable reference for the conservation and sustainable use of medicinal plants. We emphasized th...

In the face of threats caused by both anthropogenic and natural reasons, the question of the sustainability of medicinal plants has emerged very strongly in recent times. These plant resources, therefore, have become important domains of intervention and are increasingly attracting the attentions of public and private sector policy researchers, policy makers and development program implementers...