one of the important aspects of the medicinal plants production is using less chemical inputs. it could be effective for increasing of production and environmental purposes. in order to investigate the effects of application time of integrated chemical fertilizer with cattle manure on growth, yield and yield components of black cumin (nigella sativa l.), an experiment was conducted based on a r...

this experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of four medicinal plants with antibacterial property on immune system and ileum bacteria population of broiler chicks.a total 336 day-old male ross broiler chicks were used in a crd design with 6 treatments and 4 replicates per each treatment. cuminum l, mentha piperita l, achillea l, teucrium polium l, in levels of 1.5, 0.3, 0.2 and 0.2 ...

Background: What factors influence the knowledge and learning of medicinal plants biomedical drugs? We investigated this question in a context intermedicality, exploring previous experiences duration diseases at individual, family, community levels. Methods: conducted our study rural Northeast Brazil. use individual semi-structured interviews to gather information on people’s medications, as we...

The use of medicinal plants dates back to the beginning of humanity, and today their application as complementary therapy has been widely disseminated as an alternative to conventional therapy. The medicinal plant named Uncaria tomentosa (Willd.) DC. (known as cat's claw) is a common woody vine of the Amazon forest that has traditionally been used in the treatment of arthritis because of its an...

Amelanchier alnifolia Nutt. (Juneberry, Saskatoon berry or Serviceberry) fruit historically played an important role as fresh dried food and a medicinal staple in the Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara Tribal Nations. Natural Juneberry stands were lost during creation of Sakakawea Reservoir on Fort Berthold Reservation. Reintroduction is to tribal communities. Therefore, impact water fertilizer supplemen...

drying, is one of the important postharvest processes of medicinal plants with an important role played in quality and quantity of the drugs. in this research, in order to study the effect of growing conditions and different drying methods on drying time, essential oil content, color characteristics and microbial load of dracocephalum moldavica, a factorial experiment in randomized complete blo...

The aim of this study was to examine the effects of 4 herbal products on growth performance of broiler chickens. A total of 150 d – old female broilers (Arbor Acres) were randomly divided into 5 treatments, 3 replicates with 10 birds in each. Treatments included: control (basal diet without feed additives), Digestarom (commercial product of herbal plants), Bioherbal (garlic essence, garden thym...

Ficus religiosa has great mythological, religious, and medicinal importance in the culture of India and Nepal since times immemorial. The present paper was done to evaluate the potential of sodium hypochlorite in controlling the contamination of F. religiosa micro-propagation and seed germination of F. religiosa. In this study, a factorial experiment based on a completely randomized design with...

introduction & aim: the aim of this study was evaluating effect of methanol and ethanol foliar application as a new and safe technology in plant production on lemon balm’s (melissa officinalis l.) volatile oil components. experimental: experimental carried out based on a randomized complete block design (rcbd) with fifteen treatments and three replications in the experimental field of medi...

It is our pleasure to organise this thematic issue: strategies of current drugs and alternative treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, and to share the varied theory and/or experience about therapy of drugs from bench to bed. Neurodegenerative diseases, all are a group of intractable disorders in CNS: the prevalence from rare to common, and the onset from younger to older, with a little dif...