OBJECTIVES weight loss as a consecution of losing appetite in post-operative patients and those suffering from HIV, cancer, cachexia and inflammatory diseases are the main inducements of morbidity and mortality. There is an increasing demand for more efficacious and endurable appetite stimulating treatment for patients with cachexia. Health economics is influenced by the malnutrition which was ...

This study is a contribution to the inventory of medicinal plants and other methods used in controlling external parasitic diseases of backyard poultry in the localities of Djougou and Ouaké (department of Donga, Benin). It consists of a survey undertaken from December 2010 to March 2011 through visits and interviews with 210 poultry famers. The results indicate that 13 species of medicinal pla...

This study aimed to identify the most important physical variables affecting the distribution of four range plants species (Tamarix aphylla, Calligonum comosum, Prosopis spicigera and Salsola rigida) habitats and to prepare potential habitat map of the species using Maximum Entropy (MaxEnt) method in rangelands of Jiroft city, Kerman province, located in SE Iran. To this end, sampling of vegeta...

background and objectives: the artemisia genus of asteraceae family is represented by 34 species in iran. artemisia sieberi grows wild in different regions of iran and grows in desert and semi- desert climate and has forage value for animals and also medicinal properties for humans. in this study we examined the antimicrobial effects of a. sieberi. materials and methods: the antimicrobial activ...

The diversity of ten populations representing Artemisia monosperma and A. judaica has been analyzed, based on assessment of morphological, karyological and molecular variations. The analysis of morphological variation and molecular polymorphism as revealed by RAPD, using the software NTSYSpc-2.01, confirmed the differentiation of A. monosperma and A. judaica as two distinct species and showed w...

Schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical disease, imposes substantial health and economic burdens on impoverished groups living in predominantly rural areas. Praziquantel (PZQ) is the only drug available for treatment, it not completely efficacious. Artemisia annua afra infusions were proposed to possess antischistosomal activities recently retracted publication of clinical trial, leading our inve...