Medicinal plants are used for treatment of a variety of diseases. They are sources of modern medicine and a major source of remedy in developing countries. Even when some knowledge of traditional use of plants in Africa was lost due to lack of documentation [1], active experimentation on medicinal plants by local population continued [2]. The emergence of new diseases such as HIV/AIDS and resur...

In the broadest sense, the Pharmaceutical Industry comprises various different business models which cover all or only some parts of the pharmaceutical product life cycle. Traditionally, the pharmaceutical industry segment was constituted by research-based pharmaceutical companies which had an integrated business model from the research laboratory to distribution, meaning they developed, manufa...

Traditionally used medicinal plants have been a source of relief in controlling different types of diseases throughout the globe. People living in rural areas of developing countries including India rely mainly on indigenous medicinal practice to get rid of various diseases. In our present study we have conducted an ethnobotanical survey to collect information about the use of traditional medic...

Aegle marmelos (L.) Corr. Serr is one of the important plant with several medicinal and nutraceutical properties. A. marmelos is commonly known as wood apple plant. A. marmelos is belonging to Rutaceae family, the family of flowering plants. A. marmelos is known for various medicinal properties in traditional medicinal system and use to cure a variety of diseases. In last few decades, A. marmel...

In the present study the efficacy of arkas (water distillate) and essential oils of cinnamon and clove is evaluated as a preservative for kwathas. Arkas and essential oils of cinnamon and clove have good preservative property without altering the physico - chemical properties of kwatha.

Background Increasing survival rates in patients who suffer from oncological disease and improvement in reproductive medicine techniques has led to increasing use of different fertility preservation methods. The evidence supporting current and forthcoming options for fertility preservation consisted of two main parts as for female and male. Fertility preservation options for female and male dep...

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in order to evaluate cardinal temperatures and optimum thermal range of germination of three medicinal plants including thymus transcaspicus, foeniculum vulgare and  calligonumjunceum  an experiment was conducted in a completely randomized design with three replications. therefore, this experiment was conducted to study of the seed germination characteristics to temperature. the we used three m...

With both a full collection of native vascular plant distributions and a full checklist of source plants of the Chinese Materia Medica (CMM), the Uygur Medicine (UM), and the Kazak Medicine (KM) for the Xinjiang region, we defined medicinal plant: vascular plant ratios (simplified as medicinal plant ratios hereafter) as the value of medicinal plant richness divided by vascular plant richness. W...