Back ground: Ayurvedic medicines play an important role in gastro intestinal problems due to safety and efficacy in it. Hence churna meant for digestive property has been formulated by standard procedures and evaluated by physical and analytical methods. Method: The formulation consists of fine powder (sieve 60 size) of dried rhizomes of Zingiber officinale, fruits of Foeniculum vulgarae, barks...

Acute (24 hours) and chronic (90 days) oral toxicity studies on the ethanolic extracts of common spices Cinnamomum zeylanicum Nees bark and Piper longum L. fruits were carried out in mice. Acute dosages were 0.5, 1.0 and 3 g/kg while the chronic dosage was 100 mg/kg/day. All external morphological, hematological and spermatogenic changes, in addition to body weight and vital organ weights, were...

Actualmente existe la tendencia mundial de hacer uso aceites esenciales diversas plantas aromáticas para optimizar los sistemas producción pecuaria, esta es una alternativa reducir el productos químicos cuales pueden tener efectos negativos sobre salud consumidores; como canela (género: Cinnamomum) han mostrado propiedades beneficiosas en animal, sin embargo, estas no se esclarecido su totalida...

Cinnamon (Cinnamomum zeylanicum, and Cinnamon cassia), the eternal tree of tropical medicine, belongs to the Lauraceae family. Cinnamon is one of the most important spices used daily by people all over the world. Cinnamon primarily contains vital oils and other derivatives, such as cinnamaldehyde, cinnamic acid, and cinnamate. In addition to being an antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antidiabetic...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the in vitro activities of Ethiopian Thymus schimperi with other three hydro distilled essential oils against Dermatophytes (Tricophyton spp. and Microsporum spp.) and other pathogenic micro organisms. METHODS The studies were carried out using Agar disk diffusion method for screening the most effective essential oils and Agar dilution to determine Minimum Inhibitory Co...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate short- and long-term effects of Cinnamomum zeylanicum on food consumption, body weight, glycemic control, and lipids in healthy and diabetes-induced rats. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study was conducted in two phases (Phase I and Phase II), using Sprague-Dawley rats in four groups. Phase I evaluated acute effects on fasting blood glucose (FBG) (Groups 1 and 2) and on post...