1938 www.thelancet.com Vol 372 December 6, 2008 transplantations. At present, 87 institutions have full approval from the Ministry of Health; 77 others have provisional approval and 18 months to comply with all the regulations. This number is a reduction from the more than 600 institutions that did transplants 1 year ago. Regulations have been set up to ban transplant tourism. The penalty for p...

Lida Teng, BSc, is a PhD student at the Centre for Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy, School of Pharmacy, University of London; Debbie Shaw, BSc, is a research scientist at the Medical Toxicology Unit, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London; and Joanne Barnes, PhD, MRPharmS, is associate professor in herbal medicines at the School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medical and Health Scie...

This communication reports the households remedies for the treatment of chronic fever, whooping -cough and carbuncle prevailed in Kanpur district of Uttar Pradesh in India.

This article discusses some aspects of the much-debated biopiracy of traditional medical knowledge.

The Chinese medical view is that each living creature is a small part of the infinite universe, and is subject to the same laws that govern the rest of the cosmos. Therefore, an understanding of health requires an understanding of the laws of nature. The practitioner views health as a state of harmony existing between the internal environment of the body and the external environment it lives in...

doctrine of traditional medicine in iran is knowledge mixed with the art and accumulated wisdom of aryan people mixed with the greek philosophy and tested based on experience during years of the iranian history and has been beneficial in the field of health, prevention, diagnosis and treatment.in traditional iranian medicine the health has a priority to treatment, and according to life style, p...

'Omics' developments in the form of genomics, proteomics and metabolomics have increased the impetus of traditional medicine research. Studies exploring the genomic, proteomic and metabolomic basis of human constitutional types based on Ayurveda and other systems of oriental medicine are becoming popular. Such studies remain important to developing better understanding of human variations and i...

introduction: constipation is one of the most common pediatric disorders.in many cases, there is no anatomic endocrineor metabolic cause in explanation of chronic constipation.more than 85% of them called functional or idiopathic.constipation is one of the serious disease in iranian traditional medicine. besides the problem it causes, chronic constipation can be the origin of many disease. that...

conclusions traditional medicine based on certain plants could be of beneficial effects in hypertension treatment. results in total, 52 species out of the 135 (39%) screened, gave more than 50% ace inhibition. forty species were found to possess a high ace inhibiting ability and were low in their tannin content. materials and methods in the present study 135 plants used in traditional persian m...