Objective : Today, medicinal plants are widely used in remedies for several ailments and improvement of human health because of their pharmaceutical properties. This study aimed to document important useful medicinal plants and their medicinal characteristics for treatment of human ailments in the Arjan (_) Parishan protected area in Fars province of Iran during 2010-2012. Materials and Methods...

ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE It reveals the trend of knowledge of medicinal plants and the documentation serves as a baseline data for future phytochemical and pharmacological studies. AIM OF THE STUDY The medicinal plants are the integral part of the variety of cultures in Ethiopia and have been used over many centuries. Hence, the aim of this study is to assess knowledge specifically with...

In this paper, we propose a methodology for color and edge histogram based medicinal plants image retrieval. The medicinal plants are divided into herbs, shrubs and trees. The medicinal plants are used in ayurvedic medicines. Manual identification of medicinal plants requires a priori knowledge. Automatic recognition of medicinal plants is useful. We have considered medicinal plant species, suc...

ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE The study focuses on medicinal plant knowledge among the Bai in the Shaxi Valley, Northwest Yunnan, where no ethnobotanical study has been conducted so far. In an area of high biodiversity, distinct medicinal plant knowledge is documented and the influence of herbals on local knowledge is revealed. AIM OF THE STUDY To analyse current medicinal plant knowledge am...

BACKGROUND An ethnobotanical survey was undertaken to record information on medicinal plants from traditional medical practitioners in Babungo and to identify the medicinal plants used for treating diseases. METHODS Traditional Medical Practitioners (TMP's) who were the main informants were interviewed using semi-structured questionnaires and open-ended conversations. Field trips were made to...

background & aim: a herbarium is a collection of preserved plant specimens. herbarium specimens form an important recorded of what plants grew where over time. kerman province with area about 171993 km2 has a lat of difference vegetation because of climatic and topography variations. it has different elevation (above sea level) from 300 m in shahdad to 4420 m in hezar mountains. material &...

background aloe vera l. is an important pharmaceutical plant from which several medicinal and cosmetic compounds are extracted. aloe is naturally propagated through offset, which is a slow and expensive labor cost method with low economical income. objectives in this study, the effect of different media on shoot proliferation of the shoot tip of aloe vera l. was investigated. materials and meth...

hyalomma marginatum is a hard-bodied tick found on animals. this tick has been implicated in the transmission of bahig virus, a pathogenic arbovirus previously thought to be transmitted only by mosquitoes.

UNLABELLED Drug development from natural sources is an important and fast developing area. Natural sources (plants) have been used to cure a range of diseases for Thousands of years. Different online medicinal plant databases provide information about classifications, activities, phytochemicals and structure of phytochemicals in different formats. These databases do not cover all aspects of med...

We analyzed ethnobotanical data on Kansas plants to evaluate differences among families for medicinal uses by Native Americans. We compared three different statistical methods used in previous ethnobotanical studies for use in our Native Medicinal Plant Research Program, which seeks to determine which plant families are more likely to contain species with medicinal compounds. The three approach...