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...

1 Division of neurology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Shariati hospital, Tehran, Iran 2 Research Development Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Shariati hospital, Tehran, Iran 3 Research Center, Roozbeh Psychiatric Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences and Institute of Medicinal Plants. Correspondence: Alireza Moayyeri, MD Address: No 22, 2 St, Northern Kargar Av...

Background & Aim:  Investigation use of medical plants and industrial utilization of phytomedicines is necessary in veterinary medicine. Field investigation of use of medical plants in treatment of diseases of sheep and goat was the aim of present study. Martial & Methods: This study was done in southern area of Ilam province at 2008. At first, question sheet was designed for 36 diseases and c...

While the medical effects of hydrogen have been broadly analyzed, research into the effects of hydrogen on higher plants has often been of lesser concern. Recent studies on the botanical effects of hydrogen have shown that it is involved in signal transduction pathways of plant hormones and can improve the resistance of plants to stressors, such as drought, salinity, cold and heavy metals. In a...

The traditional medicine plays an important role in health care of the people especially in rural areas. Plants have always been exemplary sources of drug and many of the currently available drugs have been directly or indirectly obtained from plants [1]. Recently, the search for appropriate hypoglycemic agent has been focused on plants used in traditional medicine partly because of leads provi...

the discovery of rna interference (rnai) in recent years has revolutionized biological and medical research. rnai is the sequence-specific gene silencing triggered by double-stranded rna (dsrna). until a couple of years ago only biologists working with caenorhabditis elegans and plants could use rnai technology to gain insight into gene function……

Several herbal plants improve medical conditions. Such plants contain many bioactive phytochemicals. Terpenoids (also called "isoprenoids") constitute one of the largest families of natural products accounting for more than 40,000 individual compounds of both primary and secondary metabolisms. In particular, terpenoids are contained in many herbal plants, and several terpenoids have been shown ...

Osteoporosis is a major health hazard and is a disease of old age; it is a silent epidemic affecting more than 200 million people worldwide in recent years. Based on a large number of chemical and pharmacological research many plants and their compounds have been shown to possess antiosteoporosis activity. This paper reviews the medicinal plants displaying antiosteoporosis properties including ...

Various indigenous medicinal plants of Tublay, Benguet Province, Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines were subjected to phytochemical screening to determine the presence of natural products (secondary metabolites) i.e., alkaloids, steroids, anthraquinones, flavonoids, saponins, tannins and polyphenols, and cyanogenic glycosides which may be responsible for their therapeutic effec...