Hypercholesterolemia is a major risk factor for the development and progression of atherosclerosis and related cardiovascular disease (CVD). Epidemiological, clinical, genetic and experimental studies indicate that high serum level of low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) is associated with the cause [1]. Coronary heart disease (CHD) was first reported in European countries around 1980s, ...

Marine Drugs ISSN 1660-3397 www.mdpi.com/journal/marinedrugs Correction Correction: Banack, S.A. et al. Production of the Neurotoxin BMAA by a Marine Cyanobacterium. Mar. Drugs 2007, 5, 180–196 Sandra Anne Banack and Paul Alan Cox * Institute for Ethnomedicine, Jackson, WY 83001, USA; E-Mail: [email protected] * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: paul@ethnomedicin...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND "Dragon's Blood" (DB) has long been used as an ethnomedicine in China to invigorate blood circulation for the treatment of traumatic injuries, blood stasis and pain. To comprehensively assess the quality of DB medicine, a precise and accurate method that can rapidly separate, characterize and quantify multiple active components of DB is crucial. RESULTS An ultra perfo...

Background: Khatling valley is an unexplored and remote region located in the Uttarakhand state of Indian Himalaya, area possesses rich medicinal flora, local inhabitants using these plants since generations. The majority primary health care depends upon traditional medicine due to unavailability a modern facility, however, identity limited healers or elder people thus documentation such import...

Ethnobotanical and ethnomedical knowledge of the Malays could be known either through oral sources or documented sources. The traditional Malay medicine are useful for modern pharmaceuticals development in Malaysia conservation biodiversity. This study aims to extract categorise ethnobotanical contents medical chapter Tajul Muluk, ancient text. Transliteration data extraction were carried out o...

Background: Liverworts are a group of plants from the Marchantia genus containing various biologically active compounds and comprised 65 species worldwide. This plant belongs to Marchantiaceae family, which was used empirically in China, North America, Ancient Greece, Indonesia treat open wounds, burns, hepatotoxicity, infection prevention. Now, liverworts have great potential as medicinal nutr...

In Spain, studies about traditional knowledge related to biodiversity have focused on vascular plants. For this reason, our review concentrates on the identification and inventory of zootherapeutic resources, particularly those involving the dog (Canis lupus familiaris Linnaeus, 1758) throughout the twentieth century to the present. A qualitative systematic review in the fields of ethnomedicine...