By the end of the eighteenth century, Palestine's once busy medieval trade in medicinal substances and high standard of medical services had reached their nadir. The main reason for this was the prolonged and continuous decline of the Ottoman empire, in conjunction with serious insanitary conditions, poverty and ignorance, as well as a lack of public health facilities. In the absence of suffici...

Cancer disease has been on the increase recently in both developed and developing countries of the world resulting in 40 million deaths annually. Ethno-medicinal survey of indigenous herbal plants used in traditional medicine in the treatment of cancers was conducted in major communities in Bali, Gashaka and Sarduana Local Government Areas Taraba State Nigeria. Traditional medicine practitioner...

The Caatinga, of Brazilian exclusivity, is compound by adapted plants for the climate-specific conditions present in this region. natural resources phytogeography domain are used local communities as foods source, regional economics develops, and traditional medicine. Folk medicine applied a tradition through fraction plants, such roots, leaves, fruits, to treat inflammation, tumor, metabolic o...

BACKGROUND Throughout Brazil a large number of people seek out reptiles for their meat, leather, ornamental value and supposed medicinal importance. However, there is a dearth of information on the use of reptiles in folk medicine. In North Brazil, the freshwater turtle, Podocnemis expansa, is one of the most frequently used species in traditional medicines. Many products derived from P. expans...

Tincture of the dry herb has been used for ages in Uyghur folk medicine to treat heart disease, blood pressure, angina, tracheitis, atherosclerosis, neuralgia, migraine, and headache and toothache. 3 Since the 1970s, 246 compounds, including terpenoids,steroids, flavonoids, alkaloids, lignans, phenols, coumarins, and cyanogenicglucosides, have been identified from the genus Dracocephalum, and t...

Naturally occurring antrocamphin A (1) is a potent anti-inflammatory compound from the edible fungus Antrodia camphorata (Taiwanofungus camphoratus), whose wild fruiting body is used as a valuable folk medicine in Taiwan. This study is the first total synthesis of antrocamphin A (1) and its analogs. Their inhibition ability on NO release, superoxide anion generation, elastase release and platel...

BACKGROUND Community-based approaches to conservation of natural resources, in particular medicinal plants, have attracted attention of governments, non governmental organizations and international funding agencies. This paper highlights the community-based approaches used by an Indian NGO, the Rural Communes Medicinal Plant Conservation Centre (RCMPCC). The RCMPCC recognized and legitimized th...

Cinnamon is an unusual tropical plant belonging to the Lauraceae family. It has been used for hundreds of years as a flavor additive, but it also in natural Eastern medicine. extracts are vital oils that contain biologically active compounds, such cinnamon aldehyde, cinnamic alcohol, acid, and cinnamate. antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial properties treat diseases diabetes cardiovasc...

Folk song is a type of oral literature that lives and develops in society, especially rural communities. songs have the power to represent local knowledge community. Therefore, study needed reveal this. This research aims at revealing Buru people contained Buru’s weneks (folk songs). The data are texts (eight weneks) obtained from four informants, namely several village elders as owner songs. q...

Background: In the history of medicinal science medieval East, merits great tabibs-physicians Ar-Razi, Avicenna (Ibn Sinо), scientist-encyclopedist Beruni, Yusufi and others are enormous. When treating patients, they used plants, as well fungi, animal (ornithological) mineral products. Such use plants for purposes goes back centuries. this review, we present a compilation most important plant s...