This work documents the zootherapeutic practices in Ethnoveterinary medicine (EVM) of Pedra Lavrada (6°45'S, 36°28'W), Northeastern Brazil. We interviewed 23 people (22 men and 1 woman), who provided information on animal species used as remedies, body parts used to prepare the remedies, and illnesses for which the remedies were prescribed. We calculated the use-value to determine the most impo...

Oral hygiene is an integral part of health of a person and when neglected it results in various oral disorders.Due to high emergence of oral infections, the fast developing resistance by bacteria to antibiotics, the adverse effects of the chemical based remedies currently used in dentistry and financial considerations there is a need for alternative prevention and treatment options that are saf...

Medicinal plants are essential aspects of readily available primary healthcare remedies. Phytochemical constituents medicinal cover a broad variety chemical fields to explore medicines. This review highlights selected empirical data on traditional uses, phytochemistry, and pharmacological properties Taunggyi plants, Andrographis paniculata, Physalis peruviana, Cassia fistula. Historically, thes...

Medicinal plants have been used for centuries as remedies for human diseases because they contain components of therapeutic value. Acalypha indica L. belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae is a popular plant in traditional medicine used for treating various ailments. Phytochemical screening of the leaf extracts of A.indica was carried out following the standard procedures. Aqueous and ethanolic ...

The herbal vendors are the mobile tribal medicinement seen on the busy streets of many Indian cities selling crude medicinal plants and their products. They prescribe herbal treatment for several diseases, a skill they inherited from their forefathers through several generations of experience. They claim to have specific herbal remedies for the complete cure of some urino - genital disorders su...

The essay examines, with special reference to smallpox, the perception and interpretation of disease in pre-colonial Dahomey, present-day Republic of Benin. Because disease is seen primarily as a punishment from the gods and not just as a medical problem or a bodily disorder, traditional cult priests play a leading role in making diagnoses and prescribing remedies, mostly based on medicinal pla...

“Look back into the nature and then you will understand everything better.” This quote by Albert Einstein clearly point towards the paradigm shift from costlier antibiotic therapies to the old tradition remedies with minimum side effects like apitherapy. Apitherapy is the medicinal use of products made by honeybees. Therapies involving the honeybee have existed for thousands of years and some m...

Chaihu (Radix bupleuri, Chinese thorowax root) is a favorite medicinal herb in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and is used as a key ingredient herb for many Chinese multiherb remedies. There are 40 species of the Bupleurum grown wide in china, while only two of them, the dried roots of Bupleurum Chinese DC., known in commerce as ‘Bei chaihu’ (Northern Chinese Thorowax Root) and the dried roo...

The Herbal Vendors are the mobile tribal medicineman seen selling crude medicinal plants and their products on the busy streets of many Indian cities. They give herbal treatment for many human ailments and diseases especially the more difficult and chronic ones. They claim to have herbal remedies for some gynaecological disorders in women such as Menorrhagia, leucorrhoea and also to restore fer...

The medicinal plants find application in pharmaceutical, cosmetic, agricultural and food industry. The efficacy of some herbal products is beyond doubt, the most recent examples being Silybum marianum (Linn.) Gaertn (silymarin), Artemisia annua Linn. (artemesinin) and Taxus baccata Linn. (taxol). Randomized, controlled trials have proved the efficacy of some established remedies, for instance Z...