Diabetes mellitus is the most common metabolic disorder affecting millions worldwide. It is recognized as a global major health problem. As alternatives to the available orthodox medicines, plants are considered a potential source for the treatment of diabetes within traditional ethnomedicine practices. In the Jordanian traditional medicine a significant selection of ethnobotanicals is promoted...

Contents 1. Introduction 2. Animal self-medication and ethnomedicine 3. The impact of parasites on the evolution of self-medicative behavior 4. Food as medicine in animals and humans 5. Use of plants as medicine by chimpanzees in the wild 5.1. Whole leaf swallowing and the physical expulsion of parasite 5.2. Vernonia amygdalina and bitter pith chewing behavior 5.3. The ethnomedicine and phytoch...

Utilization of biodiversity, especially plants as ingredients for traditional medicine is a tradition rural communities in Indonesia. Villagers know from their ancestors which has been passed down generation to generation. However, knowledge regarding the use not well documented, proving that this only mastered by elderly. Ethnomedicine study one solution can be done overcome problem. The diver...

BACKGROUND Medicinal plants still play an important role in the Kurdish community. Sulaymaniyah Province in South Kurdistan (Iraq) has a great diversity of plants, including medicinal plants, yet very few scattered ethnobotanical studies conducted in Kurdistan are available in the scientific literature. Thus the study of Kurdish ethnobotany may be crucial for understanding local medicinal plant...

Objective: Over the past several decades, ethnobotany and ethnomedicine have been considered as a more appropriate interdisciplinary approach to drug discovery involving collaboration. Several studies on worldwide shown that diabetes mellitus has recognised by traditional healer pathological condition which can be treated with specific medicinal plants. The starting point in an ethno-directed s...

Palms (Arecaceae) are prominent elements in African traditional medicines. It is, however, a challenge to find detailed information on the ritual use of palms, which are an inextricable part of African medicinal and spiritual systems. This work reviews ritual uses of palms within African ethnomedicine. We studied over 200 publications on uses of African palms and found information about ritual ...

BACKGROUND The Lhoba are a small ethnic group, located in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. Until 1960, their livelihood was predominantly based on swidden agriculture, hunting, and gathering. To investigate and document the plant species used by the Lhoba, ethnobotanical surveys were conducted in three villages of Nanyi Township in Milin County, Tibet, China. METHODS Ethnobotanical surve...

This study was designed to discuss some of the important issues related to the current status of herbal drugs in the development of newer therapeutics agents. The approach to new drugs through natural products has proved to be the single most successful strategy for the discovery of new drugs. In this review we consider the past, present, and future value of employing information from plants us...