Plants are the primary source of food, shelter, and various remedial approaches. They being in use for treating kinds human ailments across world since ancient times. One such important plants is Eclipta alba hassk (Asteraceae) which commonly known as Bhringraj false daisy. This plant its extra-ordinary therapeutic properties. It one most widely used traditional systems medicines Ayurvedic, Una...

PURPOSE To report Demodex infestation in pediatric blepharoconjunctivitis. METHODS A retrospective review of 12 patients, with ages from 2.5-11 years, with chronic blepharoconjunctivitis who failed to respond to conventional treatments. Demodex was detected by lash sampling and microscopic examination. Patients were treated with 50% tea tree oil (TTO) eyelid scrubs or 5% TTO ointment eyelid m...

Due to their functional independence, proteins that comprise standalone metabolic units, which we name single-protein metabolic modules, may be particularly prone to gene duplication (GD) and horizontal gene transfer (HGT). Flavohemoglobins (flavoHbs) are prime examples of single-protein metabolic modules, detoxifying nitric oxide (NO), a ubiquitous toxin whose antimicrobial properties many lif...

Thirty-six healthy male subjects were studied under closely confined conditions in nine 6-week experiments over a 2-year period. The effects of minimal personal hygiene and related procedures were evaluated. No major problems resulted from the lack of bathing, sponging the body, changing clothes and bedding. Body odor, strongest in axilla, groin, and feet, heightened in 7-10 days inside the AMR...

Investigation and documentation of the status of medicinal plants and associated knowledge was conducted in village Dawarian, Neelum valley AJ&K. A total of 59 plant species were used for furteen (14) different categories of diseases. The medicinal plants were economically used in treating a certain ailments, such as skin diseases (10spp., 14.49%) followed by headache & fever, cough & flu (8spp...

The majority of species within the genus Malassezia are lipophilic yeasts that colonize the skin of warm-blooded animals. Two species, Malassezia globosa and Malassezia restricta, are implicated in the causation of seborrheic dermatitis/dandruff (SD/D). During our survey of SD/D cases, we isolated several species of Malassezia and noticed vast variations within a few lipid-dependent species. Va...