Herbal waste of processed medicinal plants of a local pharmaceutical industry was pretreated by steam explosion (160C for 0.5 – 2.0 h), and the process was accelerated by the use of Conc. H2SO4 (0.5 – 2.0%, 160 C for 0.5 – 2.0 h), NaOH (0.5 – 2.0%, 160C for 0.5 – 2.0 h). Significant increase in the content of reducing sugars was found after acid/alkali pretreatment of steam exploded herbal biom...

Medicinal plants have played a significant role in many ancient traditional systems of medication in Asia such as the Ayurvedic and Unanic systems of India, the Chinese traditional medicine, as well as their derivatives in most Asian countries. At present, medicinal plants still play an important role in both developed and developing countries in Asia. In addition, they also generate income to ...

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Medicinal plants continue to play an important role in modern medications and healthcare as consumers generally believe that most of them cause fewer or milder adverse effects than the conventional modern medicines. In order to use the plants as a source of medicinal agents, the bioactive compounds are usually extracted from plants. Therefore, the extraction of bioactive compounds from medicina...

Medicinal plants have been used in healthcare since time immemorial. Studies have been carried out globally to verify their efficacy and some of the findings have led to the production of plant-based medicines. The global market value of medicinal plant products exceeds $100 billion per annum. This paper discusses the role, contributions and usefulness of medicinal plants in tackling the diseas...

The health care industry with its overburdening reliance on innovation, and patents, depends on medicinal ecological knowledge to derive eco-friendly products with minimum side effects from plants and other natural genetic resources. Most indigenous and local communities are situated in world’s most biological rich and diverse, areas with abundance in natural resources, however economically dis...

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a notable amount of medicinal plants grow in iran and local communities in different parts of the country have developed a deep knowledge of various uses of plants during their old history. several ethnobotanical studies have been conducted by the traditional medicine and material medica research center (tmrc) to investigate the use of medicinal plants by local people. some of these studies hav...

background & aim: the aim of this research is investigation and familiarity with the important herbal drugs that have used for traditional curing of animal diseases in different areas of kerman province, iran. from a long time ago native farmers and tribes of different regions used the available natural herbs which existed in those regions to cure animal diseases in different areas of kerma...

background & aim: treatment with herbal medicines is very popular in all over the world. nowadays, using medicinal plants has increased because of undesirable effects of the chemical drugs. more than 10000 plant species are used for medicinal purposes, mainly as traditional medicines in the treatment of dysmenorrhea.  the aim of this study was determining the rate of herbal remedies to reli...