China is one of the first countries to use marine materia medica for treating diseases. Ancient books on Chinese herbology, such as Shennong Bencaojing (Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica), Xinxiu Bencao (Newly Revised Materia Medica) and Bencao Gangmu (Compendium of Materia Medica), have detailed more than 110 marine herbs and thousands of marine herbal formulas (including those for Chinese ...

The tumoricidal effect of herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase (HSV-tk) gene transfer followed by ganciclovir (GCV) treatment has been demonstrated in relation to the bystander effect. We examined the mode of cell death after GCV treatment in three human oral squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) cell lines that had been infected with adenovirus possessing HSV-tk gene. Oral SCC cell lines displayed hi...

uses and actions of the official inorganic materia medica; brief but clear statements about such accessory methods of treatment as clothing, baths, bleeding, and such like, and, in addition, a consideration of many general topics, such as prescribing, the alterations in the last edition of the British Pharmacopoeia, and other matters. Part II. is devoted to the consideration of drugs of vegetab...

D a t a s o u r c e s Full publications of studies were identified by searching MEDLINE (1966 to 1999), EMBASE/Excerpta Medica (1974 to 1999), the Oxford Pain Database (1950 to 1994), and the Cochrane Library (1999, Issue 3) with the terms marijuana, marihuana, mariuana, cannabis, cannabinoids, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), delta-9-THC, nabilone, pain, analgesia, and random. Bibliographies of rel...

D a t a s o u r c e s Studies were identified by searching the Cochrane Consumers and Communication Review Group specialized register (March 2001), MEDLINE (1985 to 2001), EMBASE/Excerpta Medica (1985 to 2001), CANCERLIT (1985 to 2001), CINAHL (1985 to 2001), ClinPSYC (1985 to 2001), and Science Citation Index Expanded (March 2002). Bibliographies of relevant articles were reviewed, and experts...

D a t a s o u r c e s Studies were identified by searching MEDLINE, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, and CINAHL (to 2000) and the Cochrane Controlled Trials Register, the Index to Scientific and Technical Proceedings, and HealthSTAR (to 2001); hand searching the Journal of Managed Care (1997 to 1998), which became the Journal of Integrated Care (1998 to 2001); checking reference lists; and contacting au...

New sesquiterpenoid derivatives from Solanum septemlobum with cytotoxicities Lei Zhang, Hai-Qing Lin, Gui-Sheng Li, Xi-Dian Yue & ShengJun Dai a School of Pharmaceutical Science, Yantai University, Yantai 264005, P.R. China b State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substance and Function of Natural Medicines, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical Coll...

The Objective of this study is to study the Effect of Citrus medica in urolithiasis induced by Ethylene Glycol model. A number of 24 Male Wistar albino rats (250-300 g) were divided in to 4 groups namely Group I (Normal control), Group II (Model control), Group III (Standard-treated, cystone – 750 mg/kg) and Group IV (Citrus medica – 250 mg/kg). Except group I, Ethylene glycol (0.75% v/v in dri...

D a t a s o u r c e s Studies were identified by searching the Cochrane Peripheral Vascular Diseases Specialized Trials Register (January 2003), which is based on searching MEDLINE and EMBASE/Excerpta Medica; the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (2002); hand searching Scripta Phlebologica (1993 to 2000), J Thromb Haemost (2003), and conference proceedings; scanning the citations o...