Quality control standardizations of the natural products such as medicinal plants getting more attention in recent years since the commercialization of herbal formulations increased dramatically. A wide range of methods can be applied for standardizations of herbal products. However, advancement in the microscopy technique could help to achieve the goal of standardizations of the herbal product...

a Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, United States b U.S. Geological Survey and Climate Hazards Group, Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, United States c Department of Geography and Center for Natural and Technological Hazards, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States d Marine Science Institute, University of Cal...

Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Forestry Research Institute of Ghana, UPO 63, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana Nature Conservation Research Centre, Accra, Ghana Forest Trends, Accra, Ghana Department of Geography, University College London, London, UK School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK Institute for Environment and S...

1 Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2 School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, 3 Institute of Environmental Engineering (IfU), ETH-Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, Department of Geography, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, Département de Génie de la Construction, École de Technologie Supérieure, Montreal, QC, Canad...

I want to begin the first of my three annual progress reports on industrial geography by claiming that industrial geography, at least as I know it, has done very well within the geographical and, perhaps even, the wider social-scientific discourses. I am pleased the subdiscipline has lived up to the concluding remark by Taylor (1986: 412) in his progress report some 14 years ago that industrial...

Herbal medicines are being increasingly used for treatment of variety of disorders. Herbal medicines are generally thought to lack severe side effects. Despite of the general belief, herbal medicines are known to cause serious side effects and toxicities. On the other hand, physicians’ knowledge of herbal medicines and their potential toxicities are generally limited. Neurotoxicity, cardiac tox...

This Technical Report compiles and analyzes the current scientific knowledge on herbal medicine and highlights the practical ways for ensuring the safety of herbal preparations and evaluating their claimed efficacy. Emphasis has been given to the methods for standardization of herbal medicine and the ways and means for moving forward to achieve the difficult goal of preparing herbal medicines o...

BACKGROUND Traditional herbal therapies have been used for a long time to treat gastrointestinal disorders including irritable bowel syndrome, and their effectiveness from clinical research evidence needs to be systematically reviewed. OBJECTIVES To assess the effectiveness and safety of herbal medicines in patients with irritable bowel syndrome. SEARCH STRATEGY We searched the following el...

The significance of herbals and herbal products is gaining worldwide recognition. The concept of complementary or alternative medicine is becoming much more widely accepted, and there is an increasing belief in the efficacy of herbal remedies. Recently, the role of herbal drugs, herbal products and certain phytochemicals in the control of ageing has been documented using modern scientific appro...