Background: Dog bites arise due to man’s casual and tactical association with dogs, it is a global health challenge. Rural semi-urban communities are the most affected since accessing conventional post-exposure prophylaxis nearly myth. As an alternative, readily available affordable medicinal plants used. Indigenous knowledge about such limited specialized herbalists, continuous modernization o...

As human beings we sometimes in one way or another become sick, and therefore go for treatment depending on our choice of treatment (religious perspective or Western medical treatment). Although African traditional religion is not against a Western medical way of treatment or healing process, its followers believe that there are some diseases that Western medicine cannot treat, and therefore ne...

objective: an ethnobotanical survey on the medicinal plant species marketed in mashhad city, northeastern iran, was conducted in order to document traditional medicinal knowledge and application of medicinal plants. materials and methods: this study was undertaken between 2011 and 2012. the indigenous knowledge of traditional healers used for medicinal purposes were collected through questionna...

Herbal medicine has long been contrasted to modern medicine in terms of a holistic approach to healing, vitalistic theories of health and illness and an emphasis on the body’s innate self-healing capacities. At the same time, since the early 20 century, the cultivation, preparation and mass production of herbal medicines have become increasingly industrialised, scientificised and commercialised...