BACKGROUND Asthma is a condition, often chronic, characterized by respiratory symptoms, variable airflow limitation and/or airway hyper-reactivity with symptoms causally related to family history, environmental influences, exposure to viruses and allergens as examples. The high economic burden associated with asthma is associated primarily with health care costs, missed work or school days. Thi...

Poly-herbals combination was applied to enhance biological activity, particularly antioxidant activity. This present study purposed assess the synergistic interaction of a five traditional Indonesian herbal plants through simultaneous and integrated statistical technique. The were extracted using maceration, purification conducted before extraction eliminate ballast compounds. A simplex ...

Research is the prime need of contemporary Ayurveda, but modern research on Ayurveda has not been very rewarding for Ayurveda itself. Much of it uses Ayurveda to extend modern bioscience. In contrast, Ayurveda needs research designed to test and validate its fundamental concepts as well as its treatments. In this context, if Ayurveda is to be truly explored and validated in all its aspects, sci...

Linguistic taboos (euphemisms, omissions, and other) are an essential part of Slavic verbal written culture. In this article, we analyze cryptography as a form tabooing in the magical texts grassroots manuscript tradition 17th 18th centuries (handwritten incantations herbals). Our main objective is trying to see system behind separate examples define which kinds usually tabooed herbals, their t...