Hormone replacement therapy and selective estrogen receptor modulator are the most common therapy for women going through menopause. These therapies though popular fail to relieve withdrawal symptoms such as hot flashes, fatigue, leg cramps and nausea. This scenario necessitates to herbal preparations as alternative which may lead to simultaneous intake of herbal preparations, containing flavon...

Herbal medicines in treatment of cancer as complementary and alternative therapy are accepted increasingly with growing scientific evidences of biomedical research and clinical trials. Anticancer drugs discovered from herbal medicines have a long history and some of them have been used in clinical setting as the conventional anticancer drugs. Actually, herbal medicines are a source for anticanc...

A female in her late 20s was diagnosed with systemic atopic dermatitis in another hospital 5 years earlier and treated by steroid ointment application to the affected areas and oral steroid administration. She visited our hospital due to the aggravation of dermatitis symptoms over the entire face from 1 week earlier. Lesions were present on the face, chest, neck, and bilateral upper limbs, and,...

BACKGROUND There is growing concern that serious interactions are occurring between prescribed/over the counter and herbal medicines and that there is a lack of disclosure of herbal use by patients to doctors. This study explores women's perspectives about the safety of herbal remedies, herb-drug interactions and communication with doctors about herbal medicines. METHODS Qualitative, cross-se...

objective: there are some studies about the good effects of herbal medicine on blood glucose. this study was designed to evaluate the synergism effect of peganum harmala (p.harmala), quercus infectoria (q.i), vaccinium myrtillus (v.myrtillus), citrullos colocynthis (c.colocynthis), securigera securidaca (s.s) on blood glucosein type 2 diabetic patients. materials and methods: twenty four type 2...

Abstract Background Combination of different antimalarials has become the popular method care for malaria morbidity in conventional and traditional treatment approaches due to need increase efficacy reduce selection drug resistance. A worrisome concern is critical gaps with regards information available on antimalarial herbal cocktails. This study presents cocktail remedies ethnomedicinal Oyo O...

Herbal medicines have been widely used all over the world since ancient times and have been recognized by physicians and patients for their better therapeutic value as they have fewer adverse effects as compared with modern medicines. Herbal therapeutics can be achieved by Drug Delivery systems. This herbal treatment helps to increase the therapeutic value by reduce the toxicity and side effect...

Picrorhiza kurroa Royle ex. Benth (Kutki) is an important medicinal plant used in various herbal drug formulations possessing hepatoprotective activity. Herbal drug industries purchase the raw plant material (dried rhizomes) of P. kurroa from the markets by judging the quality mainly on the basis of physical appearance of the rhizomes rather than the contents of active constituents. This study ...

Zingiber officinale Roscoe has a very long history of use throughout the world, both as spice and medicinal plant. During last two years in midst global pandemic SARS-CoV-2 various herbal products with ginger rhizome active ingredient increased because its numerous health beneficial properties. A detailed characteristic crude powdered drug is presented by microscopic photographs for first time....

PURPOSE The use of supplements as herbal and micronutrient natural health products with conventional health products has become increasingly popular. It has been reported that some herbal products can inhibit the activity of cytochrome P450-mediated metabolism and drug disposition. This study was designed to investigate a case report of a severe adverse event to determine the potential interact...