ABSTRACT: The study examined twenty plants of medicinal value in Ikeduru Local Government Area of Imo State. The study was carried out through fieldwork, specimen collection, preservation and botanical identification of plant specimens by a curator. Information on the constituents, use and preparation of the plants was got from oral interview of some traditional herbal practitioners as well as ...

BACKGROUND The reporting of the medicinal plants and their traditional uses is important in order to prevent this knowledge from being lost. The aims of this study were to collect information concerning the traditional use of medicinal plants in the region of Tafila; identify the most important medicinal plants; determine the relative importance of the species surveyed; and calculate the inform...

Considering the importance of natural products in cancer therapy, a preliminary investigation on some anticancer medicinal plants of north-eastern states of India was conducted in murine tumor model. Nine different plants such as Ageratum conizoides Linn. (Asteraceae), Blumea lanceolaria Linn. (Asteraceae), Dillenia pentagyna Roxb. (Dilleniaceae), Potentilla fulgens Wall. (Rosaceae), Taxus bacc...

BACKGROUND Zootherapy inventories are important as they contribute to the world documentation of the prevalence, importance and diversity of the medicinal use of animals in traditional human communities. The present study aims to contribute with a more valuable example of the zootherapy practices of a traditional community in the Brazilian Amazonia - the "Riozinho do Anfrísio" Extractive Reserv...

Objective: Medicinal plants are used for treatment of ailments throughout rural and urban areas of the world. Such use of plants varies from one region to another and is measured using quantitative techniques. The current research which was conducted from March to October 2015, is the first explorative study of medicinal plants used by inhabitants of lower Kurram, Kurram agency, Pakistan. Mater...

Numerous studies highlight the importance of phytotherapy for indigenous and non-indigenous people in different parts of the world. In this work we analyze the richness (number of species), diversity (plant identity and the number of illnesses for which it is used) and similarity of plant species and illnesses treated with them, in order to contribute new data and insight into the importance of...

increasing water use efficiency is one of the cases to arrivance to the stability production. in order to estimation and comparison of water use efficiency among crop species including corn, safflower, sesame ,and medicinal species including hemp, marsh mallow, white mallow. an experiment was conducted during 2009 growing seasons in the agriculture research station ferdowsi of mashhad. the expe...