BACKGROUND The paper refers to the knowledge and uses of plants and to the linked ritual practices as referred by Matteo (It.'Zì Matteo', En. 'Uncle Matthew'), one of the last elder healers in the Basilicata Region (South Italy). Particular attention is also paid to the uses of 'Vruca' (Tamarix gallica L.) as a medicinal and magical plant used to heal common warts on various parts of the body. ...

CHARLES GOODALL (1642-1712) devoted his career to the affairs of the Royal College of Physicians of London and became its most articulate defender against attacks of seventeenth-century empirics and chemists.' In his The College of Physicians vindicated ...2 of 1676 he assailed the apothecary-empirics, particularly Adrian Huyberts for misrepresenting College licensing policies and the achieveme...

Scented rose species are very important in the genus Rosa due to their use in highly-prized essential oil production and as garden roses. The fragrance of the rose flower (attar) captured by extraction is one of the most valuable flavor and fragrance products. A comprehensive study of the papers published in the field of in vitro culture and biotechnology of these species, particularly Damask r...

Sixteen white-rot Basidiomycota isolates were screened for production of lignin-modifying enzymes (LME) in glycerol- and mandarin peel-containing media. In the synthetic medium, Cerrena unicolor strains were the only high laccase (Lac) (3.2-9.4 U/mL) and manganese peroxidase (MnP) (0.56-1.64 U/mL) producers while one isolate Coriolopsis gallica was the only lignin peroxidase (LiP) (0.07 U/mL) p...

Paolo Ravanini, Eili Huhtamo, Essi Hasu, Felicita Rosa, Stefano Costantino, Maria G. Crobu, Valentina Ilaria, Anna M. Nicosia, Pietro L. Garavelli, and Olli Vapalahti Author affi liations: Azienda OspedalieroUniversitaria Maggiore della Carità, Novara, Italy (P. Ravanini, F. Rosa, S. Costantino, M.G. Crobu, V. Ilaria, A.M. Nicosia, P.L. Garavelli); and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland ...

Twenty-six isolates representing nine North American Armillaria species were investigated with flow cytometry and RFLP (restriction fragment length polymorphism) analyses to determine their nuclear DNA content and RFLP profile. Three putatively diploid isolates of A. ostoyae, A. gemina, A. calvescens, A. sinapina, A. mellea, A. gallica, A. nabsnona, and North American Biological Species (NABS) ...

Rosa canina L. is a member of Rosaceae family, which is well-known for its high phenolic contents. These compounds are known to possess antioxidant and antiradical effects. In order to compare the antioxidant and antiradical activity of wild Rosa phenolic extracts, two wild Rosa species (Rosa canina L. and Rosa pimpinellifolia L.) were selected from Takab, Oshnavieh and Qasemloo Valley of Urmia...

INTRODUCTION This study aimed to investigate the effects of Rosa canina L fruit extracts on histological damages, oxidative stress, and functional disturbances induced by bilateral renal ischemia and reperfusion. MATERIALS AND METHODS Ischemia and reperfusion were induced on the kidneys of anesthetized male Sprague-Dawley rats. The rats in the reperfusion and Rosa canina groups were administe...