Medicinal plants and their validation challenges in traditional Egyptian medicine

Medicinal Plants as Immunosuppressive Agents in Traditional Iranian Medicine

Prospects and Challenges of Medicinal Plants Conservation and Traditional Medicine in Tanzania

Although modern medicine is well developed in most of the world, large sections of the population in developing countries especially in rural areas where more than 80% of the population live still rely on Traditional Medicine (TRM) for Primary Care (PHC) [1-5]. THPs include Traditional Healers (THs) and Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) [6]. Medicinal plants constitute 95% of the total compon...

Africa: Overview on Medicinal Plants and Traditional Medicine

In all countries of the world there exists traditional knowledge related to the health of humans and animals. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) the definition of traditional medicine may be summarized as the sum total of all the knowledge and practical, whether explicable or not, used in the diagnosis, prevention and elimination of physical, mental or social imbalance and relying...

Medicinal plants used in Iranian traditional medicine to treat epilepsy

Antiepileptic drugs used to treat epilepsy can cause severe, life threatening side effects. In Iranian traditional medicine, herbal remedies have been used for centuries to treat seizures. In this study, the five most important herbals in Iranian traditional medicine, namely Canon, al-Hawi, al-Abniah 'an Haqaeq al Adwia, Tuhfat al-Mu'minin, and Makhzan ul-Adwia, were searched for the term "sar-...

Cytotoxicity and Pharmacogenomics of Medicinal Plants from Traditional Korean Medicine

Aim. The present study was designed to investigate the cytotoxicity of a panel of 280 Korean medicinal plants belonging to 73 families and 198 species against human CCRF-CEM leukemia cells. Selected phytochemicals were investigated in more detail for their mode of action. Methods. The resazurin assay was used to determine cytotoxicity of the plant extracts. Microarray-based mRNA expression prof...