BACKGROUND Saharan plants are known by their high content of antioxidant products like phenolic compounds due to the extreme climatic conditions. They constitute the basis of treatments used by local population for various diseases. The purposes of this study were to measure the total phenolic compounds and total fl avonoid compounds, to determine antioxidant capacity, and to evaluate the antib...

Background: Dicrocoeliasis and fascioliasis are foodborne parasitic diseases of the biliary tract, resulting from Dicrocoelium dendriticum Fasciola hepatica causing extensive financial losses serious health problems in ruminants. Due to low-performance medications, drug delivery is a tremendous project improve interventions available for these diseases. Objectives: This study aimed determine an...

Three new trinor-cycloartane glycosides, 15alpha-hydroxy-16-dehydroxy-16(24)-en-foetidinol-3-O-beta-D-xylopyranoside (1), 28-hydroxy-foetidinol-3-O-beta-D-xylopyranoside (2) and foetidinol-3-O-beta-D-xylopyranosyl-(1"-->3')-beta-D-xylopyranoside (3) together with the known compound foetidinol-3-O-beta-D-xylopyranoside (4) were isolated from the n-BuOH fraction of the roots of Cimicifuga foetida...

This study presents a comparative perspective on the ethnobotanical resources utilized in teeth blackening, which was formerly an important life cycle event across Southeast Asia. Based on records from the seventeenth century to the present, we identified over 60 plant species hat were used for this practice in three distinct categories: as masticants, burn products and compound dyes. Different...

As part of our ongoing research on phytoconstituents that can act as promising antimicrobial agents, the essential oils nine selected Apiaceae plants, cultivated in Poland, were studied. The volatiles aerial parts with fruits (herba cum fructi) Silaum silaus, Seseli devenyense, libanotis,Ferula assa-foetida, Glehnia littoralis and Heracleum dulce, addition to (fructi) Torilis japonica Orlaya gr...