Practices of harvesting, handling and production may cause additional contamination and microbial growth. In fact, bacteria and fungi occur naturally as a microflora of fruits, vegetables and herbs. Microbial purity is an important aspect of wholesome products, considering that medicinal plants are often collected from wild sources. These products are sold in open-air markets, and most toxigeni...

context functional dyspepsia (fd) is a functional gastro-intestinal disorder with high prevalence. among various treatment options, treatment by complementary and alternative medicines especially herbal remedies also practiced. traditional iranian medicine (tim), a valuable resource of valid applied studies of ancient iranian scholars, recommends numerous medicinal plants to treat dyspepsia sym...

Determination of the most important problems on medicinal plants in Iran in relation to Education, Management, Research and Development and Domestication of endemic and exotic medicinal plants. This study was a measuremental study in 2002 based on 36 filled questionnaire distributed among researchers and professionals in Iran. - 89 percent of researchers and professionals believed in a lack of ...

in order to evaluate cardinal temperatures and optimum thermal range of germination of three medicinal plants including thymus transcaspicus, foeniculum vulgare and  calligonumjunceum  an experiment was conducted in a completely randomized design with three replications. therefore, this experiment was conducted to study of the seed germination characteristics to temperature. the we used three m...

Triphala is a traditional herbal formulation consisting of dried fruits originating from three medicinal plants, namely Terminalia chebula, Terminalia bellirica and Phyllanthus embelica. It is used in folk medicine for the treatment of headaches, dyspepsia and leucorrhoea. There are some reports regarding Triphala"s pharmacological effects including its anti-cancer, radioprotective, hypocholest...

BACKGROUND Around 80% of the people of Ethiopia are estimated to be relying on medicinal plants for the treatment of different types of human health problems. The purpose of this study was to describe and analyse the use and management of medicinal plants used for the treatment of human health problems by the Maale and Ari communities in southern Ethiopia. METHODS Quantitative and qualitative...

Determination of the most important problems on medicinal plants in Iran in relation to Education, Management, Research and Development and Domestication of endemic and exotic medicinal plants. This study was a measuremental study in 2002 based on 36 filled questionnaire distributed among researchers and professionals in Iran. - 89 percent of researchers and professionals believed in a lack of ...

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...