Psoriasis is a chronic, painful, disfiguring and non-contagious skin disease that has globally affected at least 200 million patients. In general, mild to moderate psoriasis patients will be treated by chemical drugs or Chinese medicine, while targeting systemic biological drugs have been successfully developed with good efficacy but high cost burden to patients with severe psoriasis. Since the...

The Precision Medicine Initiative aims to use advances in basic and clinical research to develop therapeutics that selectively target and kill cancer cells. Under the same doctrine of precision medicine, there is an equally important need to visualize these diseased cells to enable diagnosis, facilitate surgical resection, and monitor therapeutic response. Therefore, there is a great opportunit...

Indeed, it isn’t a surprise that the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine has changed its name, becoming the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, indicating a choice which focuses attention on the question of TCAM (but we believe of medicine in general) on two aspects in particular: The concept of integration and that of health. A problem, therefore, n...

Over the last few decades, there has been a considerable interest worldwide in Traditional medicine/Complementary and Alternative Medicine (TCAM) particularly in herbal products. The World Health Organization also advocates the important role of alternative and traditional medicines in preventive, promotive and curative health, especially in developing countries and encourages member states to ...

Medicinal plants and derived medicine are widely used in traditional cultures all over the world and they are becoming increasingly popular in modern society as natural alternatives to synthetic chemicals. Alpinia galanga willd. (familyzingiberaceae) commonly known as galanga, is an important cultivated medicinal crop of India. Herbal medicine consists active ingredients in crude form or as an ...

In this article, we discuss our recent work in elucidating the mode-of-action of compounds used in traditional medicine including Ayurvedic medicine. Using computational ('in silico') approach, we predict potential targets for Ayurvedic anti-cancer compounds, obtained from the Indian Plant Anticancer Database given its chemical structure. In our analysis, we observed that: (i) the targets predi...

1Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia. QLD 4072, Australia 2Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, Iowa State University, 2116 Veterinary Medicine, Ames, IA 50011-1250, USA 3Arbovirus Surveillance and Research Laboratory, Discipline of Microbiology and Immunology M502, School...

Drugs fulfilling the criterion of a standard drug will always become panacea provided, if they are used properly. On the other hand, a poorly manufactured drug however used skillfully, will prove to be a poison. Texts of Ayurveda, do mention hazards of drugs, which are not properly manufactured or administered. Art of drug administration is unique in this ancient medical science that cautions t...

background and objectives: cardiospermum halicacabum l. is a climber plant of sapindaceae family with certain medicinal properties that have made it to be used traditionally in different systems of medicine such as ayurveda, homeopathy and unani medicine. literature survey has revealed the reports about some investigations but references were not available about the seeds of c. halicacabum; hen...

BACKGROUND In traditional medicine, there has been a great deal of research on the effects exhibited by medicinal materials. To study the effects, resources that can systematically describe the chemical compounds in medicinal materials are necessary. In recent years, numerous databases on medicinal materials and constituent compounds have been constructed. However, because these databases provi...