ABSTRACT Mayurbhanj, a hilly district, is rich in ethno medicinal plants. In the present paper 58 plant species belonging to 34 families used in folk medicine have been documented. Due to poor condition of modern healthcare facilities and poverty, indigenous people of the district fully or partially depend on local medicinal plants. An attempt has been made to document traditional knowledge fro...

The relevance of medicinal chemistry to pharmacy practice has been questioned by many pharmacy educators as more emphasis has been placed on linking clinical knowledge and practice to pharmacy student educational outcomes. Faculty teaching in medicinal chemistry and other biomedical and pharmaceutical science courses have embraced this challenge. Various teaching methods and approaches within m...

‘Departments of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, and *Department of Physiology, School of Medicine and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, 3Department of Cell Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, and 4Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Division of Anatomic Pathology, Medical ...

Background The search for substances with antimicrobial properties is intensifying every day, given the increasing number of microorganisms resistant to the usual antibiotics. The use of plant components in the pharmaceutical field has gradually increased in Brazil. According to the World Health Organization, medicinal plants should be the best sources to obtain up new varieties of drugs [1]. D...

Naturally derived plant products with medicinal value play an important role in health care systems, both in humans and animals. This is evident with the growing interest in their utilisation on a global perspective in the treatment of different ailments (Farnsworth and Morris, 1976; Farnsworth and Soejarto, 1985; Farnsworth, 1988; Balandrin, et al., 1993). In the crude form, medicinal plants c...

This document has been elaborated by the IUPAC Medicinal Chemistry section and is backed by a large number of scientists, many of whom have had direct involvement and whose names appear at the end of the article. This work discusses the role that the discovery of new medicinal agents has in the development of societies as well as in the conservation of biodiversity in terms of work carried out ...

HASSAN A ALHAZMI, HAFIZ A MAKEEN, SAMI EL DEEB Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of pharmacy, Jazan University, P.O. Box 114, Jazan 45142, Saudi Arabia. Department of Clinical Pharmacy, College of pharmacy, Jazan University, P.O. Box 114, Jazan 45142, Saudi Arabia. Institute of Pharmacy, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Al-Azhar Uni...

Mercury toxicity leads to cell damage in many organs of the body. The authors comparatively examined the ability of different food additives with medicinal properties to protect against mercury (Hg) accumulation in the liver following different treatment interventions and modes of administration. Rats were fed on either 7% w/w Zingiber officinale, 7% w/w Garlic, 10% w/w Lycopersicon esculentum,...

Mustard is a condiment that has been used for culinary, religious and cultural purposes by humanity since time immemorial. Mustard has figured prominently in the Indian tradition and its medicinal properties have been systematically evaluated and documented in the classical Ayurvedic texts. The paper attempts to carefully review the ancient and contemporary uses of mustard as food and medicine ...