The use of complementary and alternative medicine has remarkably increased in different societies across the world, such that the World Health Organization has emphasized in its recent approach the revival of traditional medicine in different regions of the world [1]. Throughout the history, in particular, in the past centuries, human beings have attempted to improve their health status to achi...

In silico approaches have been widely recognised to be useful for drug discovery. Here, we consider the significance of available databases of medicinal plants and chemo- and bioinformatics tools for in silico drug discovery beyond the traditional use of folk medicines. This review contains a practical example of the application of combined chemo- and bioinformatics methods to study pleiotropic...

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, two medicine circles existed in Indian country: one Native and one Euro-American. Traditional doctors among First Nations peoples approached disease in spiritual ways and also used herbal medicine to treat their patients. First Nations people tried to treat infectious diseases brought by newcomers through plant medicine, ritual, and ceremony. Generally...

THE study of the history of ancient Indian medicine in the Indian sub-continent as a special subject by practitioners of modem medicine, is of comparatively recent origin; some eminent Indian physicians, however, have interested themselves in the subject and have published short articles in the Indian medical press from time to time. Notably one or two have recently published small treatises on...

Facing severe mental health disparities rooted in a complex history of cultural oppression, members of many urban American Indian (AI) communities are reaching out for indigenous traditional healing to augment their use of standard Western mental health services. Because detailed descriptions of approaches for making traditional healing available for urban AI communities do not exist in the lit...

Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA; Center for American Indian Health Research, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK; Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX; Missouri Breaks Industries Research Inc., Timber Lake, SD; The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY; MedStar Health Research Institut...

background: systemic lupus erythematosus is a kind of multi-system autoimmune disorder with unknown aetiology and it produces antibodies against various tissues. case presentation:the patient wasa 44-year-old woman with a history of systemic lupus erythematosus for approximately five years, along with underlying diseases including peptic ulcers, asthma, hypertension and diabetes in the past 10 ...

1 State Police, Health Service Department, Ministry of Interior, Italy 2 Italian Society of Integrative Psychotherapy for Social Development (SIPISS) 3 Hospital Occupational Medicine Unit (UOOML), ICS Maugeri SpA SB, Pavia (Italy). 4 Occupational Medicine Unit “S. Maugeri”, Department of Public Health, Experimental and Forensic Medicine, University of Pavia (Italy). Hospital Occupational Medici...

The aerial parts of Cissus quadrangularis L. var-I collected from different soils were chemically analyzed for setting the standard to be of use in Indian Traditional Systems of medicine. Extractive value, ash value, loss on draying, powder analysis, qualitative and quantitative phyto-chemical estimation were estimated.

Since ancient times, plants have been an exemplary source of medicine. Ayurveda and other Indian literature mention the use of plants in treatment of various human ailments. Ficus bengalensis Linn is a large evergreen tree found throughout forest tracts of India. It is popular indigenous system of medicine like Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Homeopathy. In traditional system of medicine various pl...