We present a comparative study on the use of wild honeys produced by insects of the order Hymenoptera in the Criollos (of mixed origin) and Polish populations in the northern part of the province of Misiones, Argentina. The principal questions of the study are: do different types of honey exist that are used for both nutritional and medicinal purposes or on the contrary: do exclusively nutritio...

An ethno-botanical survey of some threatened & endangered medicinal plants of milkweed family was undertaken by means of oral questionnaire. The aim of present survey is to collect information about these valuable plants of Asclepiadaceae used in the treatments of various ailments and to spot the knowledgeable traditional healers among different communities in rural areas of Bhilwara, Ajmer, Ud...

garlic is one of the important medicinal plants that it's plants in many origins. the intercropping of plants is a view of sustainable agriculture that it's very useful. to evaluate the potential of garlic in intercropping with medicinal plants, this study was conducted as a randomized complete block design (rcbd) with three replications at the ramin agriculture and natural resources university...

abstract in order to study the effect of different aqueous shoot extracts of four medicinal plants consist of: basil (ocimum basilicum l.), jimson weed (datura stramonium l.), summer savory (satureja hortensis l.) and meliaceae (melia azedarach l.) on seed germination and seedling characteristics of wild oat an experiment was conducted at faculty of agriculture, ferdowsi university of mashhad o...

Current treatments for Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) are limited in their application, have undesirable dosing regimens and unsatisfactory toxicities highlighting the need for the development of a safer drug pipeline. Our medicinal chemistry programme in developing rapidly accessible and modifiable heterocyclic scaffolds led to the design and synthesis of novel substituted benzothiophenes...

Several medicinal plants are having hypoglycemic effects.[1], The World Health Organization has recommended that the assessment of traditional plant treatments for diabetes mellitus needs further investigation.[2], Several herbal medicines were described for the care of diabetes mellitus in ancient literature of Ayurveda in India. Many of the plants used as diet were reported to have antidiabet...

this research was conducted to compare the effects of two medicinal plants (peppermint and aloe vera) and antibiotic growth promoter on ileum microflora population and growth performance of broiler chickens. in this experiment, 375 one-day old male broiler chickens (ross 308) were used on a completely randomized design with 5 dietary treatments which were replicated 5 times with 15 birds per re...

campylobacter is known to be one of the most common causes of human intestinal disorders. since poultry are known to be the main reservoirs for this pathogen, decreasing this bacterium in intestinal tract could be beneficial in reducing contamination of poultry products. the effects of probiotic (primalac®), medicinal plant (sangrovit®) and organic acid (selko-ph®) as broiler feed additives on ...

Aim: Many traditional treatments have been recommended in the alternative system of medicine for treatment of diabetes mellitus. Juglans regia is one of the medicinal plants used in traditional Iranian medicine as a treatment for diabetes, but little scientific documentation supports its antidiabetic action. Th e purpose of this study was to investigate antidiabetic eff ect of J. regia leaves i...

Reperfusion therapy represents an important step forward in the management of patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Few medicinal treatments have been evaluated so well. In numerous randomized controlled trials, reperfusion therapy proved to reduce infarct size and improve early and long-term clinical outcome when compared with control treatment. The cornerstones of ...