Abstract Objective: The current study summarizes the updated information concerning the ethnopharmacology, Phytochemistry, and pharmacology of Otostegia persica Boiss. (Lamiaceae), an endemic medicinal plant in south and southeast of Iran. Materials and Methods: Information was collected through bibliographic investigation from scientific journals, books, theses, reports, and electronic search ...

background: medicinal plants use is growing in iran and controlling their quality in terms of contamination with toxic metals is critical. city of arak, due to its large industrial plants, is one of the most polluted cities of iran these pollutants can be transferred to the farms. methods: in this study, concentrations of metals such as aluminum, arsenic, lead and cadmium are measured by atomic...

objective:  unaccustomed and intense eccentric exercise is a common cause of delayed-onset muscle soreness (doms). there are multiple remedies for the treatment of doms, but its clinical and laboratory pieces of evidence are scarce. currently, the treatments proposed for doms are numerous and include pharmaceuticals, herbal remedies, stretching, massage, nutritional supplements, and other alter...

background & aim: nepetabracteata benth is a medicinal plant belongs to the lamiaceae family which wildly grows in khorasan province. this herb is used by the indigenous people as afolkloric medicine in khorasan. this paper aimed to study the situation and application of this plant in traditional medicine of khorasan province.experimental: current study was done by questionnaire and intervi...

Erigeron breviscapus (Vant.) Hand.-Mazz. (Asteraceae) is a species endemic to southwestern China and an important traditional Chinese herb for cardiovascular and cerebral vessel diseases. Applying a modified biotin-streptavidin capture method, 11 microsatellite loci were discovered. Polymorphism of each locus was assessed in 24 individuals collected from five wild populations. The number of all...

OBJECTIVES To determine the extent to which college students are intermixing mood-altering herbs with prescription medications and whether they are disclosing this information to their health care providers. DESIGN AND SETTING A nonrandom sample was drawn from the student body of a Northwestern state university (n=305). METHODS In November 2008 participants completed an online survey detail...

Dendrobium huoshanense (Orchidaceae) is a perennial herb and a widely used medicinal plant in Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) endemic to Huoshan County town in Anhui province in Southeast China. A microsatellite-enriched genomic DNA library of D. huoshanense was developed and screened to identify marker loci. Eleven polymorphic loci were isolated and analyzed by screening 25 individuals coll...

Herbs are usually considered as inherently harmless products. Nonetheless, various renal injuries have been reported in association with several herbs. The best-known herb-induced chronic kidney disease is aristolochic acid nephropathy. Aristolochic acid is found in Chinese slim herbs. Balkan endemic nephropathy is nowadays considered as an aristolochic acid nephropathy. Plants of Aristolochiac...