Background: Traditional medicine (TM) is a common practice among tribal communities of India. The present study has been designed to collect the ethnomedicinal plants used by Bodo community Kokrajhar district India traditionally consumed cure helminth infection. Methods: A total 54 villages were surveyed from district. Twenty adjacent taken as cluster, and one informant was interviewed face-to-...

Antitumor research leads to the development of new molecules that act specifically in tumor cells by blocking or inhibiting their molecular targets. New therapeutic approaches for screening bioactive compounds present medicinal plants have received increasing attention due chemopreventive and chemotherapeutic properties. In ethnomedicine, genus Vernonia (Asteraceae) are widely used some shown s...

D on Jose,” an experienced traditional healer in his 60s, concentrated his gaze on his middle-aged p atient, looking carefully into her eyes as she re c i ted her symptoms. “I am fatigued, frequently with pain in my abdomen, and have a feeling of fullness. My periods are so heavy—I notice that I pass huge clots of blood which look dark and deep red,” she noted. He reached tow a rd her and held ...

Canada is experiencing a growing interest in the use of alternative therapies and products particularly natural health products (NHP). In 1997, Canadians spent around C$ 2 billion on NHP. In an attempt to catch with this popularity of NHP use, Canadian researchers and administrators from academia, industry and government jointly established the Natural Health Product Research Society of Canada ...

Various combinations of Nauclea latifolia root, Artocarpus altilis stem bark, Murraya koenigii leaf and Enantia chlorantha stem bark used in African ethnomedicine as decoctions for malaria and fevers, and combinations with standard drugs, were investigated for antiplasmodial activities using Plasmodium berghei berghei-infected mice. The respective prophylactic and curative ED50 values of 189.4 ...

Boesenbergia rotunda is a herb from the Boesenbergia genera under the Zingiberaceae family. B. rotunda is widely found in Asian countries where it is commonly used as a food ingredient and in ethnomedicinal preparations. The popularity of its ethnomedicinal usage has drawn the attention of scientists worldwide to further investigate its medicinal properties. Advancement in drug design and disco...