The commercial significance of medicinal plants was known since millennia but its popularity has grown remarkably in terms of herbal drugs, herbal cosmetics and nutraceuticals during the last few decades. The primary reason being increased interest of developed countries in herbal medicines for safer and natural health care system. This has intensified research on medicinal plants of developing...

Plants have been used throughout human history for their medicinal properties and herbal medicines are popular worldwide. Since, all herbal medicines are mixtures of more than one active ingredient, such combinations of many substances obviously increase the likelihood of interactions taking place. Although herbal medicines have been used as remedies for number of illnesses, many of them have s...

Background and Aim Lubiprostone is a novel laxative that sometimes causes nausea, but preventive strategies remain unconfirmed. Methods We retrospectively chose 126 patients prescribed lubiprostone from 2013 to 2016. Medical records were reviewed to clarify whether nausea developed after administration of the drug. Background characteristics, including concomitant medicines, were also reviewe...

BACKGROUND Age is the leading risk factor for acute and chronic neurodegenerative diseases. The Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing, the oldest known compendium of Chinese materia media, lists herbal medicines that were believed to exert neither fast acting pharmacological effects nor discernible toxicity, but to promote general health and longevity. In modern terms, these herbal medicines could be consider...

In the presented case, we got an herbal medicine in the form of a set of different color pills from local herbal medicinal practitioner. According to the advertisements on monograph, the product contains only herbal ingredients without any adequate declaration of the ingredients and was declared as anti-diabetic formulation. For identification of the ingredients, the pills were analyzed by UV, ...

Why Pharmacokinetics? Herbalists have long studied the effect of herbal medicines on the body, but have hitherto paid less attention to the effects of the body on herbal medicines. This dichotomy expresses the distinction in classical pharmacology between pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics. For a given dose of any herbal medicine, its physiological effect (or that of its constituents) will b...

Ten years have passed since Directive 2004/24/EC regulating herbal medicinal products across the EU were published. The directive created the Committee on Herbal Medicinal Products within the European Medicines Agency whose remit includes the creation and publishing of official EU monographs on herbal medicinal products. These monographs include the official uses of the products and their evide...

Anxiety and insomnia are two of the most prevalent mental health conditions a significant contributor to disability worldwide. We all experience feelings anxiety, fear, worry at many point in our lives. These can have negative impact on every individual’s physical if they persist for an extended period time. Clinical anxiety disorders result from this. be treated with variety methods also herba...