jaundice is the commonest ailments affecting the citizens of both developed and poor asians countries including iran. an ethnobotanical survey of plants used by the traditional healers for the treatment of jaundice was conducted in the mashhad city, northeastern iran. a total of 37 plants belonging to 32 genera and 26 families have been documented for their therapeutic use against jaundice. the...

Objective: Alpha-glucosidase, as a carbohydratase catalyses the liberation of alpha-glucose from the nonreducing end of some carbohydrates from foods in digestive tract.  Consequently, retard absorption of glucose by the inhibition of carbohydrate hydrolyzing enzymes is one of the therapeutic approaches to decrease the postprandial hyperglycemia. Recently, a great deal of attention has been pai...

Background and objectives: Cervicitis is a common and recurrent gynecologic disease which is usually resistant to treatments. This study was conducted to investigate the effect of Iranian traditional medicine (ITM) product, flixweed- honey, on cervicitis. Methods: A quasi-experimental study was conducted as a clinical trial before and after the intervention at ...

medicinal plants are infected by fungal diseases. a four years survey indicated that, there are various fungal infections in roots and shoots of several medicinal plants that grown in isfahan. lavender (lavandula angustifolia), rosemarry (rosmarinus officinalis) and viper’s bugloss (borago officinalis) plants were infected by fusarium oxysporum and f. solani on roots, showing wilting and eventu...

Mélisande Albert, Univ. Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, LJAD, UMR 7351, 06100 Nice, France, [email protected] Yann Bouret, Univ. Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, LPMC, UMR 7336, 06100 Nice, France, [email protected] Magalie Fromont, Univ. Européene de Bretagne, CNRS, IRMAR, UMR 6625, 35042 Rennes, France, [email protected] Patricia Reynaud-Bouret, Univ. Nice Sophia Antipolis, ...