INTRODUCTION Herbal medicines play an important role globally in the health care sector and in industrialised countries they are often considered as an alternative to mono-substance medicines. Current quality and authentication assessment methods rely mainly on morphology and analytical phytochemistry-based methods detailed in pharmacopoeias. Herbal products however are often highly processed w...

OBJECTIVE Medicinal plants organize an effective source of folk and modern medicine. Correct identification, authentication and quality control are essential to ensure safety, therapeutic potency, efficacy and reproducible quality of herbal medicines. The aim of this study is to use taxonomic method for authentication of traditional herbal drugs which are commonly sold in herbal shops in Iran. ...

Medicinal plants have remained the major sources of drugs; in fact many of the Currently available drugs were derived either directly or indirectly from them. The Approach to new drugs through natural products has proved to be the single most successful strategy for the discovery of new drugs. In the past decade, research has been focused on scientific evaluation of traditional drugs of plant o...

Phytotherapy has long been a source of medicinal products and many attempts to use 12 herbal medicine for the treatment of diabetes has been done over the years. Several medicinal 13 plants and their preparations demonstrated to act in key points of glucidic metabolism. The most 14 common mechanisms of action found include the inhibition of α-glucosidase and of AGE 15 formation, the increase of...

Medicinal plants have been explored therapeutically in traditional medicines and are a valuable source for drug discovery. Insufficient knowledge about the molecular mechanism of these medicinal plants limits the scope of their application and hinders the effort to design new drugs using the therapeutic principles of herbal medicines. This problem can be partially alleviated if efficient method...

Background A large number of classical and recently discovered plants are indicated in preventing and/or treating Alzheimer's disease (AD). Objective Name of plants with their anti-AD effects are important for their further use and investigation. Method A short overview of AD is given; anti-Alzheimer plants are given in a Table. Results Various medicinal plants are listed here as sources ...

Many of our 'small-molecule-drugs' are natural products from plants, or are synthetic compounds based on molecules found naturally in plants. However, the vast majority of the protein therapeutics (or biopharmaceuticals) we use are from animal or human sources, and are produced commercially in microbial or mammalian bioreactor systems. Over the last few years, it has become clear that plants ha...

Plant endophytes are very numerous and widely distributed in nature, their relationships being described as a balanced symbiotic continuum ranging from mutualism through commensalism to parasitism during a long period of coevolution. Traditional Chinese medicines have played a very important role in disease treatment in China and other Asian countries. Investigations show that these medicinal p...

Assam and Arunachal Pradesh have very rich tradition of herbal medicines used in the treatment of various ailments. Tribal communities practice different types of traditional healing practices. Enough documentation is available on the healing practices in other tribal communities except Mishing community of Assam and foot hill of East Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh hence the attempt was ma...

Plant antimicrobials fulfil the needs of today’s consumer looking for wholesome food without chemical preservatives. These can be classified as novel compounds obtained from plants that delay microbial growth of pathogens and spoilage organisms in food. The antimicrobial activity of plant extracts that is observed in in-vitro conditions is quite different to its effect in complex food systems. ...