A large and increasing number of patients use medicinal herbs or seek the advice of their physician regarding their use. More than one third of Americans use herbs for health purposes, yet patients (and physicians) often lack accurate information about the safety and efficacy of herbal remedies. Burgeoning interest in medicinal herbs has increased scientific scrutiny of their therapeutic potent...

BACKGROUND Worldwide, herbs and spices are much used food flavourings. However, little data exist regarding actual dietary intake of culinary herbs and spices. We developed a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) for the assessment of habitual diet the preceding year, with focus on phytochemical rich food, including herbs and spices. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the intakes of herb...

*Corresponding author: Azam Asgari; PhD, Medical Plants Research Center, Shahrekord University of Medicine Sciences, Shahrekord, Iran. E-mail: [email protected] Herbal products have been widely used around the world since ancient times. Herbal products are complex of organic chemicals that may come from any naive or processed part of a plant, including leaves, stems, roots, flowers, and seeds....

Herbal formulas of traditional Japanese (Kampo), Chinese and Korean medicines usually comprise multiple herbs in a single formula. These medicines are expected to show their clinical effects by chemical, pharmacological and pharmaceutical combination effects of multi-herbs. However, little effort has been made so far to scientifically clarify the nature of such combination effects. Interestingl...

What is herbal therapy? Herbs are plants that contain ingredients with active therapeutic properties. These active ingredients may be present in the whole plant or only in a specific part. Other parts of the same plant, or other plants in the same genus may have no activity or may in fact be toxic. An herb may be used in various forms, including teas, granular extracts (Chinese medicine), fresh...

Kampo formulations comprise a number of crude natural drugs/herbs as constituents. The crude drugs/herbs have been traditionally classified by their traditional classifications or efficacies in Kampo medicines; however, it has been difficult to establish the scientific link between experimental evidence and traditional classifications in Kampo medicine. To clarify such traditional conceptions, ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused small businesses throughout Indonesia to experience an economic decline. People are psychologically afraid of contracting the virus, so they limit going out house. Indirectly causing a decrease in income because people spending and consumption patterns. This community service aims help located Banjarbaru, South Kalimantan managing their business. survey results ...

“Oxidative stress” underlies a number of ailments & lipid peroxidation (LPO) also has economic implications/safety concerns as it contributes to spoilage food products/cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. Antioxidants seem hold solutions for such problems. Culinary herbs based antioxidants are in demand be food, cosmetic or pharma industry. In pursuit finding safe present evaluation employing com...

Dried cabya (Piper retrofractum Vahl.) is commonly used in making various types of herbs, spices, and cosmetic raw materials that require heating processes so they information on the value thermal conductivity (k), diffusivity (α), specific heat (Cp). The properties dried are affected by different phytochemical compositions at each maturity stage fruit. This study aims to determine analyze cont...