This paper provides a preliminary evaluation of fifty-eight ethnomedicinal plants used in Trinidad and Tobago for skin problems, stomach problems, pain and internal parasites for safety and possible efficacy. Thirty respondents, ten of whom were male were interviewed from September 1996 to September 2000 on medicinal plant use for health problems. The respondents were obtained by snowball sampl...

in the present study, cadmium (cd) accumulation capabilities of aquatic macrophytes ceratophyllum demersum, bacopa monnieri and rotala rotundifolia were determined after treating both individual and triple macrophytes. the macrophytes were treated with cd at 0, 0.1, 1 and 10 mg/l concentrations in a controlled chamber for 12-days. cadmium accumulations increased with increasing cd concentration...

Jujube or ber (Ziziphus spp.) is one of the most important fruit crops India’s arid and semi-arid regions because its high adaptability to resource constraints hot (semi)arid region. a rich source minerals, vitamins dietary antioxidants zone dwellers, where it known as poor man’s apple. Given present rising trends in discovering exploiting plant-based health-promoting compounds, imperative know...