The use of plants during pregnancy is a common practice in Africa. In Côte d'Ivoire, despite modern antenatal medical prescriptions, most pregnant women resort to traditional medicine to ensure foetus development and facilitate childbirth. Yet, there is not enough research on the African traditional medicine concerning this aspect of health. Therefore, the plants used by pregnant women need to ...

In silico approaches have been widely recognised to be useful for drug discovery. Here, we consider the significance of available databases of medicinal plants and chemo- and bioinformatics tools for in silico drug discovery beyond the traditional use of folk medicines. This review contains a practical example of the application of combined chemo- and bioinformatics methods to study pleiotropic...

Globally, a majority of people use plants as a primary source of healthcare and introduced plants are increasingly discussed as medicine. Protecting this resource for human health depends upon understanding which plants are used and how use patterns will change over time. The increasing use of introduced plants in local pharmacopoeia has been explained by their greater abundance or accessibilit...

This paper deals with the wild medicinal plants used by rural population of south-western part of Kolhapur district, Maharashtra State. The authors gathered data on 34 species of locally available wild plants used in curing common human ailments. The plants are arranged according to the type of ailment. Vernacular name of each species followed by its botanical name, relevant plant family and kn...

Man has always made use of flora to alleviate suffering and disease. This review presents information on the various therapeutic applications of plants used in traditional medicine, their active principles and observed side effects in animals and human beings. We also focus on the gaps in our knowledge about plant toxicoses that require scientific investigations and offer some logical conclusions.

The special significance of medicinal plants in conservation stems from the major cultural, livelihood or economic roles that they play in many people’s lives. Uses of Medicinal Plants as a traditional medicine are followed by around 80% peoples in the world. This is nowhere more so than in those remoter parts of the world where cultural and biological diversity tend to be most concentrated, an...

Background and aim: From long time ago, traditional medicine was integrated with popular culture and various aspects of treatment have been allocated to it. At the present time, the use rate of this method depends on people’s belief and recognition. Experimental: The research was conducted in the region Mobarakeh, Iran, in order to identify the priorities for application of medicinal plants by...

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 relieve ...

Background and aim: From long time ago, traditional medicine was integrated with popular culture and various aspects of treatment have been allocated to it. At the present time, the use rate of this method depends on people’s belief and recognition. Experimental: The research was conducted in the region Mobarakeh, Iran, in order to identify the priorities for application of medicinal plants by...

This study aims to describe the availability of herbal medicines and medicinal plants in the primary care facilities in the state of São Paulo, Southeast Brazil, from the results of the first cycle of the National Program for Access and Quality Improvement in Primary Care (PMAQ). The PMAQ uses a national cross-sectional multicenter design, with data from 4,249 health facilities distributed amon...