passes a wide variety of treatments, such as herbal remedies, not currently thought to be part of mainstream medicine. Our study focuses on herbal remedies, as their use is significant and increasing. We ask whether media coverage of conflicts of interest in clinical trials of herbal remedies is of sufficient quality to provide the public with information to make decisions that are rational, we...

Advanced Medical Technology Association. 2006. Advanced wound management: Healing and restoring lives. Efficacy of micronized flavonoid fraction in healing of clean and infected wounds.

Artemisinin and its derivatives are endoperoxide-containing compounds which represent a promising new class of antimalarial drugs. In the presence of intraparasitic iron, these drugs are converted into free radicals and other electrophilic intermediates which then alkylate specific malaria target proteins. Combinations of available derivatives and other antimalarial agents show promise both as ...

India has immeasurable varieties of tropical plants. Native Indians possess a long tradition of Kabiraji medicine utilizing such medicinal plants. The Indian Medicine Central Council Act 1970 recognizes Ayurvedic medicine. The World Health Organization also sponsors and encourages research in Ayurvedic treatments1. The use of herbal medicine can be traced back to China about 5000 years ago. Ext...

To test for antimicrobial activity, crude extractions of the fruit of Barringtonia edulis were performed using traditional Hawaiian implements of a stone grinder (poi pounder) and a wooden board. The Kirby-Bauer method was used to test the antimicrobial properties of these extractions against Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Candida albican...

BACKGROUND Chinese herbal medicines are commonly used to improve general health and well-being despite limited scientific data to support their efficacy. We conducted a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial to determine whether an herbal remedy that is used widely in China was associated with changes in quality of life, energy, memory, sexual function, and qi (the Chinese concept o...

The Purpose of the study was the isolation and identification of Urinary tract infection (UTI) bacteria and the evaluation of their susceptibility against antibiotics. In addition, susceptibility and chemotactic behavior of isolated strains were evaluated against medicinal herbal plant extracts. To perform the study, 200 samples were collected from the patients suffering from UTI. Then, the bac...

The Zingiber montanum herbal compress remedy is a type of medicine that can be used as an alternative treatment for improving pain symptoms. This study aimed to evaluate the clinical efficacy Z. relief. PubMed, Scopus, ScienceDirect, and Thai databases were systematically searched relevant articles published from inception December 2022. Only randomized trials (RCTs) wherein was compared placeb...

A five-herb containing traditional homemade medicine is extensively used to treat gout but has not been standardized for quercetin content. Therefore, the current study describes a reversed-phase liquid chromatographic method determination in herbal remedy. The elution was carried out using aqueous 2.0% acetic acid, acetonitrile and tetrahydrofuran (55:40:5, V/V/V) as mobile phase at flow rate ...