The special active agent content of herbs makes them suitable for healing and health preservation. key element in the processing spices is drying. Before drying, medicinal plants should be stored under appropriate conditions to avoid deterioration quality where one possible methods pre-drying with ambient air. This work defines determination main operational parameters at forced convection dryi...

An unusual burn case caused by hot wormwood leaf water is discussed. A 29-yr-old woman sustained a 7% seconddegree burn on both buttocks and the left thigh. This case report highlights a rare cause of chemical burn that may become more common with increasing use of this method of traditional Chinese medicine. Measures for preventing this type of burn injury are also presented.

Global Natural Product Social Molecular Networking, or GNPS, is a resource for sharing and discovering mass spectrometry (MS) data for natural products [2]. Natural products, which are simply any substance that is found in nature, are pervasive in life and hold tremendous power in their study and applications. As an example, the 2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine was presented to a pharmacologist, Yo...

Plants used for treating endoand ectoparasites of rabbits and poultry in British Columbia included Arctium lappa (burdock), Artemisia sp. (wormwood), Chenopodium album (lambsquarters) and C. ambrosioides (epazote), Cirsium arvense (Canada thistle), Juniperus spp. (juniper), Mentha piperita (peppermint), Nicotiana sp. (tobacco), Papaver somniferum (opium poppy), Rubus spp. (blackberry and raspbe...

collaboration with Percy Stocks and H. T. P. * j With Foreword by Sir Alexander Maxwell. JChurchill. 1942. Pp. 327. 45s. jj, This book is the result of an investigation into characteristics of 4,000 lads between 16 and 20 ye^f age, received at the Boys' Prison at Wormwood Sc^ between 1930 and 1937, before entering one of Borstal Institutions. In some ways it may be reg^T, as a continuation of D...

Smedley Wormwood is an accountant who is indicted for embezzling funds from the company for which he works. He generally presents an impression of an unobtrusive, conventional, compliant, “vanilla” individual. When his lawyer interviews him about the charges, Smedley seems innocent, frightened, and bewildered. In discussing the details of events around the time of the alleged crime, Smedley bec...

Annual wormwood (AW) (Artemisia annua L.) has anti-malarial, anti-bacterial, anti-oxidant, anti-tumour, and anti-inflammatory activities. In the present study, we evaluated the effects of annual wormwood leaves (AWL) on adipocyte differentiation in 3T3-L1 cells and high-fat diet (HFD)-induced obese rats. 3T3-L1 adipocytes and HFD-induced obese rats were treated with AWL, and its effect on gene ...