Early growth water stress reduces the extract and fresh oil of Silybum marianum L. (S. marianum) shoots. Two experiments were conducted to reduce effects early drought. Treatments in first experiment organic seed cover fillers at three levels (control, vermicompost, peat moss), hydrogel seven 2, 4, 6 g hydrogelF1 per kg OSC, hydrogelA200 cover), deficit (100, 50, 25% field capacity), second exp...

OBJECTIVE This review focuses on the medicinal plants growing and having history of folk medicine in Iran and found effective as anti free radical damage in animal or human. DESIGN Embase, Scopus, Pubmed, Web of Science, Google Scholar, IranMedex, and SID databases were searched up to 2 February 2008. The search terms were antioxidant or "lipid peroxidation" and "plant, medicinal plant, herb,...

Botanicals have been used traditionally by herbalists and indigenous healers worldwide for the prevention and treatment of liver disease. Clinical research in this century has confirmed the efficacy of several plants in the treatment of liver disease. Basic scientific research has uncovered the mechanisms by which some plants afford their therapeutic effects. Silybum marianum (milk thistle) has...

introduction due to scarcity of forage and water resources and high feed prices in iran, it seems that the utilization of native and cheap forage resources for ruminants is important. the milk thistle (silybum marianum) is distributed in different regions of iran included: gonbad kavoos, gorgan, nodeh kalardasht, dareh hezareh, dasht mugan, poshtkoh, mollassani, shush, hamidieh, ramhormuz, izeh...

In the present paper are discussed the results of the investigations of the phenylpropanoids of the medicinal plants which are of the great interest as the sources of the neurotropic, adaptogenic, immunostimulating, antioxidative, and hepatoprotective preparations. There were shown the necessity of using of the standard samples of triandrin (Rhodiola rosea L. tissue cultures, Salix viminalis L....