background & aim: herbal medicine usage is prevalent among world people from a long time ago and, it has been five times from 90th to 97th in the usa. according to increasing usage of herbal drugs and investigating the knowledge, beliefs and function of patients to herbal drugs, this research was done. experimental: it is a descriptive, cross sectional study which carried on 30 patients who...

Rai MK (2010) Review: Biotechnological strategies for conservation of rare and endangered medicinal plants. Biodiversitas 11: 157166. The use of medicinal plants is as old as human civilization. The biotechnological tools play a crucial role in conservation of rare and endangered medicinal plants. The rapid depletion of plant genetic diversity has made essential to develop new in situ and ex si...

BACKGROUND Research was carried out in Konta Special Woreda (District); it is a remote area with lack of infrastructure like road to make any research activities in the area. Therefore, this research was conducted to investigate medicinal plants of the Konta people and to document the local knowledge before environmental and cultural changes deplete the resources. METHODS The information was ...

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...

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...

1. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants – Australia 1.1. Natural Plant Medicines Worldwide A Historical Perspective 1.2. Phytochemicals of Therapeutic Significance 1.3. Nitrogen Containing Compounds (Alkaloids) 2. Australian Plant Evolution 2.1. Australian Medicinal Plant Use 3. Some Useful Australian Medicinal Plants 3.1. Eucalyptus Species 3.2. Melaleuca Species 3.3. Leptospermum Species 3.4. Eremop...

BACKGROUND Food and herbal medicinal therapy is an important aspect of Chinese traditional culture and traditional Chinese medicine. The Naxi are indigenous residents of the Ancient Tea Horse Road, and the medicine of the Naxi integrates traditional Chinese, Tibetan, and Shamanic medicinal systems, however, little is known about the medicinal dietary plants used by the Naxi people, or their eth...