To the. Editor of" The Indian Medical Gazette." Sir,?I beg to ask the favour of your publishing the following lines which contain additional facts and information in connexion with Ixora and which have not been published in the Indian Medical Gazette. It will not come into general use if trouble is not taken to spread its cultivation in hospital compounds and gardens or in other places. As Ixor...

BACKGROUND Rapid modernization in the East Sepik (ES) Province of Papua New Guinea (PNG) is resulting in a decrease in individuals knowledgeable in medicinal plant use. Here we report a synthesis and comparison of traditional medicinal plant use from four ethnically distinct locations in the ES Province and furthermore compare them to two other previous reports of traditional plant use from dif...

Janakia arayalpatra (Periplocaceae) known to the local kani tribe as 'Amruthapala' is a rare and endemic wild plant species of southern forested region of Western Ghats. The medicinal value of this plant as a potential drug was reported by the authors earlier (on the basis of the information collected from the Kani tribe). Preliminary ethnopharmacological investigation of the plant showed promi...

Department of Biology and Biotechnology “L. Spallanzani”, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, Department of Plant Molecular Biology, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, India, 3 Plant Breeding, Genetics and Biotechnology Division, International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, Philippines, 4 Faculty of Life Sciences, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto, Japan...

Jürgen Held, Kai Gräber, Gerhard Leubner-Metzger, Tim Kunkel, Christian Theilacker, Stefanie Kramme, Annette Schmitt-Graeff Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; Institute for Biology II, Botany/Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; Center for Infectious Diseases and Travel Medicine & Cent...

A number of plant drugs are used in topical application meant for medical and cosmetic purposes. Many of such recommended drugs have been reported to cause contact dermatitis which fact is well supported by clinical studies. To find out the role of these plant drugs in the etiology of contact dermatitis, clinical studies of 34 such herbal drugs were carried out.

Plant Science Group, Institute of Molecular, Cell, and Systems Biology, College of Medical, Veterinary, and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom (F.K., A.A.); and Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1318, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique-AgroParisTech, Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Saclay Plant Sciences, RD10, F–7...

Studies of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana may seem to have little impact on advances in medical research, yet a survey of the scientific literature shows that this is a misconception. Many discoveries with direct relevance to human health and disease have been elaborated using Arabidopsis, and several processes important to human biology are more easily studied in this versatile model plant.

purpose: to evaluate malpractice complaints against ophthalmologist referred to the iri. methods: this cross-sectional study was performed on medical council during years 2003 to 2008. spss software was used for analysis. results: during this period from 1869 cases of malpractice 115 (%6.1) have been related to the field of ophthalmology but in order to some problems we can’t analysis 24 files....

Schizophrenia is a subtle disorder of brain development and plasticity; it affects the most basic human processes of perception, emotion, and judgment. In Bangladesh the traditional medical practitioners of rural and remote areas characterized the schizophrenia as an insanity or a mental problem due to possession by ghosts or evil spirits and they have used various plant species' to treat such ...