The synthesis of nanoparticles silica oxide from rice husk, sugar cane bagasse and coffee husk, by employing vermicompost with annelids (Eisenia foetida) is reported. The product (humus) is calcinated and extracted to recover the crystalline nanoparticles. X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) and dynamic light ...

Background and objectives: Ferula assa-foetida (asafoetida) is a native Iranian species which grows in different regions and climates in Iran. The plant is well known in Iranian Traditional Medicine as well as folk medicine for treatment of diseases. Several studies have been carried out on the essential oil of this species collected from different are...

Use of herbs as combinations is a common practice with many herbal practitioners. The main idea behind this usually is the synergistic action expected to take place by the traditional healer hence being able to give better results as compared to one herb and also treat more than one ailment, even those not mentioned by the patient. However, other interactions such as additive and antagonism too...

Anti-helmintic drug is an agent that destroys or causes the expulsion of parasitic intestinal worm. They may also be called vermifuges (stunning) or vermicides (killing). Asafoetida is the dried latex (gum oleoresin) exuded from the living underground rhizome or tap root of several species of Ferula (three of which grow in India), which is a perennial herb (1 to 1.5 m high). Asafoetida is exten...

In this study, the botanical pesticide Suaeda maritima (L) leaf extract was evaluated against yellow stem borer (YSB), Scirpophaga incertulas Walker (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), and bacterial blight disease Xanthomonas oryzae pv. (Xoo), of rice. S. leaves were powdered subjected to various organic solvents, like petroleum ether, ethyl acetate, methanol based on polarity, in which acetate produced ...

The presented research, comprising characterization of nine species the wild rose (Rosa L.), came from various regions Northern Iraq. study proceeded in 2021–2022 at College Education Pure Science, University Mosul, Employing random amplification polymorphism DNA (RAPD) helped determine genetic variation relationships among using statistical program Numerical Taxonomy and Multivariate Analysis ...