ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE Sri Lanka has a great diversity of snake species. In this relation, over 40,000 cases of snakebite accidents are reported annually from different agro-ecological regions of the country. Since more than 95% of victims rely on traditional treatments, there is an urgent necessity to improve the system. Traditional knowledge on snakebite treatments has been passed on ...

We do what we know": Local health knowledge and home-based medicinal plant use in Ethiopia Hareya Fassil, DPHIL, Development Studies International Development Centre, Queen Elizabeth House Today, the majority of Ethiopians continue to depend on traditional plant medicines for their basic health care needs. The central propo sition of this thesis is that a significant part of the knowledge under...

Background and objectives: Bacterial antibiotic resistance is a major issue in the process of infectious disease treatments. The aim of this study was an evaluation of the antibacterial activity of Punica granatum flower extract against several gram-negative and positive clinical bacterial isolates.   Methods: An adequate dried flower of an endemic mature Punica granatum plant was used for ex...

allelopathy refers to the chemical inhibition or stimulation of one species by another which could influence on the growth or germination of other plant and used in control of weed in agricultural practices. in this sense in order to study the possibly allelopathic effects of lemon balm, bitter apple and lemon verbena medicinal plants on control of wild mustard weed, a laboratory experiment was...

background & aim: cassia angustifolia vahl is a valuable medicinal plant that it is important for constipation treatment. according to the importance of organic agriculture in increasing the yield of medicinal plants, the effect of bio-fertilizer on quantities yields of cassia angustifolia vahl or senna in karaj region (iran) was examined. experimental: this research was carried out in rand...

background & aim: sage (salvia officinalis l.) is a perennial medicinal herb which belongs to lamiales order and lamiaceae family. this plant has economical value for four years. nowadays the use of plant growth regulators (pgr) has an important role for increasing the secondary metabolites in plants. among pgrs jasmonic (ja) and salicylic acid (sa) have many applications in medicinal plant...

Mushrooms play essential role in preventing and treating various health issues, including, Reducing swellings due to allergy, blood pressure, high cholesterol level”. contain quality, proteins, polysaccharides, unsaturated fatty acids, mineral substances, triterpenes, secondary metabolites. are an excellent supplier of micronutrients bioactive chemicals that may help avoid chronic illnesses. ha...

bitter asafetida (ferula assafoetida l.) is one of the medicinal-rangeland plants belonging to apiaceae family. the resin which is through incision secreted of the root has medicinal properties. the effect of rain on resin yield of this plant is one of problem of natural resources offices. the main aim of this study was to find out the effects of the irrigation on the resin yield, plants surviv...

background & aim: kelussia odoratissima mozaff. (apiaceae) is one of the medicinal plants and endemic in zagros mountains, iran, which unfortunately due to illegal harvest is endangered. in order to break dormancy and to evaluation of effect of different treatments on traits a factorial experiment base on completely randomized design was created on the seed zone sar-aghaseyed functions in c...