History of medicine and plants dates back to remote past when herbal treatment was the only answer to all kind of ailments. Nowadays, greater emphasis is again being laid to phytotherapy all over the world. Besides, cultivation-cum-setting up herbal gardens are also mooted on hills and plain areas as management of all kinds of diseases is possible through plant drugs sans toxicity.

Since 2005, campylobacteriosis become the most important gastrointestinal infectious disease in Europe. The disease affects especially infants under 4 years of age, causing primarily gastroenteric symptoms but also responsible of different extra intestinal pathologies. The most frequent way of infection is considered to be related to contaminated poultry meat consumption. Prevention relies on g...

Introduction There is some debate as to whether commonly used herbs can help the passage of pre-existing large kidney stones. Given the advances with modern techniques of stone removal, this is probably now a bypothetical issue in most clinical situations. What is probably more relevant is whether herbs can help prevent stone formation or assist in the dissolution (or passage) of small stones. ...

Classical multicomponent preparations mostly derived from traditional usages in Western and Eastern phytotherapy have been under-evaluated for a long time as potential new pharmaceutical products. The regulatory scenario, in particular at the European level, has only recently considered these aspects proposing harmonized guidelines for the pharmaceutical registration of traditional herbal produ...

∗ On 10 September 2010 Professor Dr. Fritz H. Kemper retired rom the European Scientific Cooperative on Phytotherapy (ESCOP) aving been President for more than 18 years, and at the wheel of SCOP from its beginning in 1989. Thanks to his great personal ommitment, his scientific competence and his diplomatic skills rofessor Kemper steered its course safely through many a storm. e, his colleagues ...

UNLABELLED Modulation of cytokine secretion may offer novel approaches in the treatment of a variety of diseases. One strategy in the modulation of cytokine expression may be through the use of herbal medicines. A class of herbal medicines, known as immunomodulators, alters the activity of immune function through the dynamic regulation of informational molecules such as cytokines. This may offe...