Since the U.S. Congress passed the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) in 1994, use of herbal products has been growing rapidly worldwide. To ensure consumer health protection, the quality and safety of herbal plants, particularly those used for dietary supplement preparations, must be determined. To date, toxicological data on the identification of genotoxic and tumorigenic ing...

introduction: many people are used medicinal plants due to natural, low risks and complications, and low costs as compared with the synthetic drugs. incidence of drug resistance against chemical antimicrobial drugs has led the use of medicinal plants for treatment of infections in recent years. the aim of this study was to examine possible antibacterial effects of four herbal plants in vitro.  ...

the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of aloe vera extract (ae) on the immunity responses and hematological parameters in rainbow trout (oncorhynchus mykiss) fry to develop alternative drug to chemotherapeutics and antibiotics in aquaculture. 1200 rainbow trout (oncorynchus mykiss) fry weighing 2±0.2 gram were randomly allocated into two treatment groups including: 1) placebo-treate...

context functional dyspepsia (fd) is a functional gastro-intestinal disorder with high prevalence. among various treatment options, treatment by complementary and alternative medicines especially herbal remedies also practiced. traditional iranian medicine (tim), a valuable resource of valid applied studies of ancient iranian scholars, recommends numerous medicinal plants to treat dyspepsia sym...

The recent technological advancement in nanotechnology has opened new avenues for research and development in the field of herbal and medicinal plants biology. Development of reliable and eco-friendly processes for synthesis of nanoparticles is an important step for introduction of applications of nanotechnology into herbal research. In the past decade, there has been much concern about the met...

Several herbal plants improve medical conditions. Such plants contain many bioactive phytochemicals. Terpenoids (also called "isoprenoids") constitute one of the largest families of natural products accounting for more than 40,000 individual compounds of both primary and secondary metabolisms. In particular, terpenoids are contained in many herbal plants, and several terpenoids have been shown ...

People are using herbal medicines from centuries for safety, efficacy, cultural acceptability and lesser side effects. Plant and plant products have utilized with varying success to cure and prevent diseases throughout history. Written records about medicinal plants date back at least 5000 years to the Sumerians and ancient records are suggested earlier use of medicinal plants. Due to side effe...

Herbal tea is essentially an herbal mixture made from leaves, seeds and/ or roots of various plants. As per popular misconception, they are not derived from the usual tea plants, but rather from what are called as ‘tisanes’. There are several kinds of tisanes (herbal teas) that have been used for their medicinal properties. Some of them being consumed for its energizing properties to help induc...

the overall goal of this review is to discuss the potential efficacy of herbal treatments. plants are considered among the main sources of biologically active chemicals. plant based drugs usage in our past decay became very renowned due to their fewer side effects and being less expensive than chemical ones. recently, more abrupt tendency in this field has been increased. furthermore, advances ...