Identification and Differentiation between Hoodia gordonii (Masson) Sweet ex Decne., Opuntia ficus indica (L.) P. Miller, and Related Hoodia Species Using Microscopy and PCR Vaishali Joshi a; Natascha Techen a; Brian E. Scheffler b; Ikhlas A. Khan a a National Center for Natural Products, Research and Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences Department of Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy,...

Nilgirianthus heyneanus is widely used in South India in place of Sahachara (Barleria prionitis L) and is considered as an important Vatahara drug. Detailed pharmacognosy of the root of N. heyneanus commonly known as Karim Kurinji (Malayalam) in Kerala has been carried out. Some of the diagnostic features of the drug are pigmented cystoliths in the cortex and pith region; yellow colour cell con...

Ahmed A. B. Mohamed, Farid A. Badria, Azza R. Maarouf, Naglaa I. Abdel-Aziz, Fardous ElSenduny, Alaa A.M. Abdel-Aziz, Said M. Bayomi Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Mansoura, Mansoura 35516, Egypt. Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Mansoura, Mansoura 35516, Egypt. Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Ma...

1 School of Chinese Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong 2Division of Life Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong 3 Faculty of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia 4Centre for Complementary Medicine Research, University of Western Sydney, NSW 2560, Australia 5 Department of ...

Center for Retrovirus Research and Comprehensive Cancer Center, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210; Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210; Department of Cancer Immunology and AIDS, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215; HIV ...

Pathophysiology of kidney, gallbladder and urinary stones treatment with herbal and allopathic medicine: A review Shashi Alok *, Sanjay Kumar Jain, Amita Verma, Mayank Kumar, Monika Sabharwal Department of Pharmacognosy, Institute of Pharmacy, Bundelkhand University, Jhansi (U.P.), India Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture...

Lavandula stoechas is distributed in Africa, Europe, and Asia continents, especially the countries of Southern Europe North Africa neighboring Mediterranean. The use L. stoechas, which has a cosmopolitan distribution, mainly Mediterranean region, treatment rheumatic diseases reduction inflammatory problems folk medicine dates back to ancient times. It been determined that contains various bioac...