BACKGROUND The evolution and spread of antibiotic resistance, as well as the evolution of new strains of disease causing agents, is of great concern to the global health community. Our ability to effectively treat disease is dependent on the development of new pharmaceuticals, and one potential source of novel drugs is traditional medicine. This study explores the antibacterial properties of pl...

BACKGROUND To use any domestic remedy, specific knowledge and skills are required. Simple logic dictates that the use of wild plants in the context of limited interaction with nature requires prior identification, while in the case of non-plant remedies and cultivated plants this step can be omitted. This paper aims to document the current and past uses of non-plant remedies and cultivated plan...

Department of Molecular Sciences and Center of Excellence in Genomics and Bioinformatics, University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee 38163 (D.R.N.); Department of Cell and Structural Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801 (M.A.S.); Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington 98195 (S.M.P.); Department...

Subfamily-specific Fluorescent Probes for Cys proteases Display Dynamic 1 Protease Activities During Seed Germination 2 3 Haibin Lu, Balakumaran Chandrasekar, Julian Oeljeklaus, Johana Misas-Villamil, 4 Zheming Wang, Takayuki Shindo, Matthew Bogyo, Markus Kaiser, Renier A. L. van der 5 Hoorn 6 7 1 The Plant Chemetics Laboratory, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, OX1 8 3RB Oxfo...

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, two medicine circles existed in Indian country: one Native and one Euro-American. Traditional doctors among First Nations peoples approached disease in spiritual ways and also used herbal medicine to treat their patients. First Nations people tried to treat infectious diseases brought by newcomers through plant medicine, ritual, and ceremony. Generally...

1 Department of Surgery, Scott & White Memorial Clinic and Hospital, Temple, TX, USA 2 Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA 3 Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA 4 Department of Molecular and Cellular Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, College Station, TX, USA ...

background & aim: nepetabracteata benth is a medicinal plant belongs to the lamiaceae family which wildly grows in khorasan province. this herb is used by the indigenous people as afolkloric medicine in khorasan. this paper aimed to study the situation and application of this plant in traditional medicine of khorasan province.experimental: current study was done by questionnaire and intervi...

Fenugreek is an medicinal plant that use in disease some therapy. This plant use  for blood lipids and sugar decreasing in diabetic and non diabetic peoples and have antioxidant and antibacterial activity. The plant contains active constituents such as alkaloids, flavonoids, steroids, Saponins etc. It is an old medicinal plant. It has been commonly used as a traditional food and medicine. Fenug...

Medicinal plants and derived medicine are widely used in traditional cultures all over the world and they are becoming increasingly popular in modern society as natural alternatives to synthetic chemicals. Alpinia galanga willd. (familyzingiberaceae) commonly known as galanga, is an important cultivated medicinal crop of India. Herbal medicine consists active ingredients in crude form or as an ...

Herbal medicine has become one of the considered alternatives in curing many diseases, including diabetes mellitus. It was found that Insulin Plant (Costus pictus) and Cherry Tree (Muntingia calabura) contain compounds can help treating diabetes. This study aims to investigate compare anti-diabetic activity fresh leaf extracts plant […]