The roots and rhizomes of various species of the perennial herb licorice (Glycyrrhiza) are used in traditional medicine for the treatment of several diseases. In experimental and clinical studies, licorice has been shown to have several pharmacological properties including antiinflammatory, antiviral, antimicrobial, antioxidative, antidiabetic, antiasthma, and anticancer activities as well as i...

Kampo medicines, the Japanese adaptation of traditional Chinese medicines, are formed by combining several herbs containing multiple phytochemicals. The considerable ambiguity of pharmacological profiles of Kampo medicines is expected to be clarified by identifying the molecular targets of constituent phytochemicals and analyzing the combined effects of the phytochemicals on the pharmacological...

The accumulations and partitions of mineral elements and dry matter in upland cotton plants were followed: A, at five-day intervals for thirty days starting with the seed with the plants growing in Hoagland's solution in a warm-to-hot summer greenhouse, and B, at 15-day intervals from thirty days after planting to maturity in field plantings. The latter data are not original but are recalculate...

Al-doped ZnO (AZO) thin films were deposited directly on p-GaN substrates by using a two-step deposition consisting of polymer assisted deposition (PAD) and atomic layer deposition (ALD) methods. Ohmic contacts of the AZO on p-GaN have been formed. The lowest sheet resistance of the two-step prepared AZO films reached to 145 Ω/sq, and the specific contact resistance reduced to 1.47 × 10-2 Ω·cm2...

objectives in the present study, we evaluated the antibacterial activity of capsella bursa-pastoris alone and also combined with glycyrrhiza glabra against streptococcus mutans, s. sanguis, actinomyces viscosus, enterococcus faecalis as oral pathogens. conclusions c. bursa-pastoris and its mixture with g. glabra are suggested as appropriate candidates to control dental caries and endodontic inf...

10.1016/S1674-6384(14)60042-3 Licorice (the roots of Glycyrrhiza uralensis) is widely-used in Chinese herbal compound prescriptions for its functions of nourishing qi, alleviating pain, tonifying spleen and stomach, eliminating phlegm, relieving coughing, and harmonizing prescriptions. It contains more than 20 triterpenoids and approximately 300 flavonoids. In recent years, many studies have r...