background and objectives: salvia species are important because of their medicinal, traditional and economical uses. they are used traditionally for treatment of several diseases. the genus salvia is represented in the iranian flora by 61 species of which, 17 are endemic.  in the present study, the phytochemical and biological effects of two iranian salvia species have been evaluated. methods: ...

Salvia divinorum (salvia) is an intense, short-acting hallucinogenic plant gaining popularity among adolescents in the United States. There has been little scientific documentation of salvia's effects. The popular video-sharing website YouTube has received literally thousands of video-posts of people using salvia. The objective of this study was to assess the effects of salvia use through syste...

titute of Materia Me ts reserved. 16/j.apsb.2013.06.00 ors. Tel.: +86 10 8 [email protected] esponsibility of Inst Abstract In China, over 40 species of the genus Salvia have been used as medicinal plants for various diseases, some for thousands of years. Recently, research has focused on the biological activities of Salvia medicinal plants used in traditional chinese medicine (TCM). However, t...

Ziel der Studie: Die Internetpr senz der pflanzlichen halluzinogenen Droge Salvia divinorum auf deutschsprachigenWebsites wurde in dieser Studie systematisch untersucht. Dieses Suchtmittel findet in suchtmedizinischen und psychiatrischen Fachb chern bislang keine Erw hnung. Die Studie ist Teil des EU-gef rderten Projektes „Psychonaut“ zur systematischen Beschreibung drogenbezogener Internetseit...

Background and objectives: Salvia species are important because of their medicinal, traditional and economical uses. They are used traditionally for treatment of several diseases. The genus Salvia is represented in the Iranian flora by 61 species of which, 17 are endemic.  In the present study, the phytochemical and biological effects of two Iranian Salvia species hav...

The chemical composition of the essential oils of Salvia africana L., Salvia elegans Vahl, Salvia greggii A. Gray, Salvia mellifera Green and Salvia munzii Epling, cultivated in Eboli (Salerno, Southern Italy), was studied by means of GC and GC-MS analyses. In all, 88 compounds were identified, 54 for S. africana, accounting for 95.4% of the total oil, 55 for S. elegans (92.9%), 50 for S. gregg...

Objective: This study is to determine the effect and mechanism of salvia extract on angiogenesis of the myocardium in rats with myocardial infarction (MI). Methods: Left coronary artery of Sprague-Dawley rats was ligated to establish MI model. Forty rats were randomly divided into five groups: sham operation group, MI model group, and three salvia extract groups (10, 20, 40 mg/kg/day), with eac...

Sage (Salvia) species are the largest members of Lamiaceae or mint family [1,2]. Many species of salvia are native to Mediterranean region [3]. Sage family members especially common sage (Salvia officinalis) have been used traditionally throughout the world as a remedy for the treatment of many common ailments such as, cough, asthma, bronchitis, angina, mouth and throat inflammations, depressio...

It has been recently shown that polysaccharides isolated from plants exhibit a number of beneficial therapeutic properties. Bauhinia championii (Benth.) Benth. has been widely used for the clinical treatment of knee osteoarthritis (OA) in China. However, the underlying molecular mechanisms of knee OA treatment have yet to be elucidated. In the present study, we investigated the effects of Bauhi...