titute of Materia Me ts reserved. 16/j.apsb.2013.06.00 ors. Tel.: +86 10 8 [email protected] esponsibility of Inst Abstract In China, over 40 species of the genus Salvia have been used as medicinal plants for various diseases, some for thousands of years. Recently, research has focused on the biological activities of Salvia medicinal plants used in traditional chinese medicine (TCM). However, t...

Ziel der Studie: Die Internetpr senz der pflanzlichen halluzinogenen Droge Salvia divinorum auf deutschsprachigenWebsites wurde in dieser Studie systematisch untersucht. Dieses Suchtmittel findet in suchtmedizinischen und psychiatrischen Fachb chern bislang keine Erw hnung. Die Studie ist Teil des EU-gef rderten Projektes „Psychonaut“ zur systematischen Beschreibung drogenbezogener Internetseit...

Fufang Xueshuantong (FXST) capsule, a Chinese medicinal formula composed of four herbals - Panax notoginseng, Radix Astragali, Radix Salvia Miltiorrhizae and Radix Scrophulariaceae, has been used to treat cardiovascular diseases for many years, but the pharmacological mechanisms underlying its effects has not been clarified. This study investigates if a connection between FXST and angiotensin c...

BACKGROUND A number of medicinal plants have been used to treat various immunological diseases. Nitric oxide (NO) has an important regulatory role in the various types of inflammatory processes. OBJECTIVE To investigate the NO modulatory activity of the extracts of several medicinal plants native to Iran including Dracocephalum kotschyi, Linum persicum, Dionysia termeana, Salvia mirzayanii, F...

Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is featured by the presence of hepatic steatosis combined with inflammation and hepatocellular injury. Gut-derived endotoxin plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis of NASH. Salvia-Nelumbinis naturalis (SNN), a formula of Traditional Chinese Medicine, has been identified to be effective for NASH, but the mechanisms were not thoroughly explored. In the presen...

This research aimed to evaluate the in vitro antibacterial activity of methanol extracts Rhus coriaria L. (sumac) and Salvia urmiensis Bunge against some food-borne pathogens, survey phytochemical constituents extracts, their drug targets pathogens. The was evaluated six pathogens using agar well diffusion broth microdilution methods. Both exhibited highest obtained by sumac Staphylococcus aure...