The aim of the study was to formulate and investigate the pharmacokinetic parameters for the tablets of herbal extract of caffeine with comparison to synthetic formulation. The tablets of the aqueous herbal extract of leaves of Camellia sinensis and synthetic caffeine were formulated by wet granulation technique. The HPLC and HPTLC were applied as analytical tools for estimation of caffeine. Th...

Article history: Received on: 23/06/2016 Revised on: 14/07/2016 Accepted on: 04/09/2016 Available online: 29/11/2016 To avoid skin dryness and irritation encountered with alcohol-based sanitizers, Toddalia asiatica stem bark extract was explored in formulation of a germicidal herbal antiseptic detergent. A L9 (3 4 ) Taguchi Orthogonal Array was used to optimize set factors for design and prepar...

herbal medicine has an old history with a broad application all over the world. many researches have focused on the curative as well as antinociceptive effects of herbal extract. the aim of this study was to investigate the analgesic effects of berberis vulgaris hydroethanolic extract (bve) in male mice. 30 male mice were divided into 5 groups: control, treated by morphine, treated by bve (150 ...

Background: Herbal therapy is eventually based on the knowledge and practitioner skills. In India, local plants, as well as shrubs, can be procured easily due to influence of ancient Ayurveda. Taking into due considerations, we investigated Cestrum nocturnum (CN) Linn. commonly known as Raat rani. The shrub has been reported to have a wide arena of ethnopharmacological relevance. Objective: In ...

in the current iranian poultry industry, antibiotics are the most frequently used additive in feeds to increase the productivity. regarding the negative effects on human health due to consuming chicken whose feeds contain antibiotics, finding an appropriate alternative is of a great importance. this study aims to find an appropriate and harmless feed additive to increase the quality and quantit...

Importance of herbal medicines have recently increased owing to rising interest in their health benefits. However, medicinal plant extracts are complex mixtures of phytochemicals that act synergistically or additively on specific and/or multiple molecular and cellular targets. Thus, it is difficult to examine the actual pharmacological roles of active compounds in plant extracts. This review de...

Herbal medicines possess a great demand in both developed and developing countries as a source of primary health care owing to their attributes having wide biological and medicinal activities, high safety margins and lesser costs. People living in rural areas of Nepal depend largely in the herbal medicines for the treatment. The present study concerns with the study of pharmacognostic character...

background & aim:cervical cancer is the most common   female genital cancer and the second most common cancer in women in the   world. since the herbal ingredients have been used for centuries to treat   cancer, purpose of the present study was to determine the cytotoxic   effect of hydroalcoholic extract from satureja bachtiarica bungeon   hela cancer cells line. experimental: hela cells line ...

background : the aim of this study was to evaluate the antimalarial effects of iranian flora artemisia khorassanica against plasmodium berghei in vivo and pharmacochemistry of its natural components. methods : the aerial parts of iranian flora a. khorasanica were collected at flowering stage from khorassan province, northeastern iran in 2008. they were air-dried at room temperature; powder was ...

The commercially available herbal products as the form of extract were usually mixtures containing various compounds. In spite of the purported efficacy in each active constituent, the coexisting constituents in the herbal extract might interfere with the efficacy and safety and affect the pharmacokinetic properties of active constituents. To compare for the pharmacokinetic properties of α-mang...