Medicinal plants have long been considered for the treatment of many diseases among Iranians and in recent years use medicinal has increased. In traditional Iranian medicine, described to eliminate kidney stones, dissolve stones or prevent stone formation. Based on results Cichorium intybus L. Biarum straussii Engl., Tribulus terrestris L., Nasturtium officinale R. Br., Alhagi camelorum Fisch.,...

Climate change is one of the most important issues in the global social, political and economic agenda, yet it has taken a while to be prioritized. This is partly because climatic change was communicated as a scientific problem which was originally complex, confusing and at times contested scientific information which resulted to a slow public and political awareness. Thus, climate change comme...

BACKGROUND Majority of the people in rural areas depend on traditional fungi-based medicines to combat different illnesses. This ethnomycological survey was undertaken to document the traditional knowledge of mushrooms among the communities in the Kilum-Ijim mountain forest reserve. Although macrofungi are exploited for food and medicine, their ethnomycological knowledge has not been documented...

BACKGROUND The Kagera region, in north western Tanzania, is endowed with a strong culture of traditional medicine that is well supported by a rich diversity of medicinal plants. However, most of the plants in this region have not been documented nor evaluated for safety and efficacy. As an initiative in that direction, this study documented the knowledge on medicinal plant use by traditional he...

Indigenous knowledge of wild and cultivated plant use is linked to local culture and history. It should be regarded as a body of knowledge that has continually developed over time without the outside assistance of formal science. Pakistan has 18 different types of ecological zones with a variety of habitat types like the coastal Mangrove forests, the desert subtropical foothills dry and moist a...

BACKGROUND In traditional medicine, there has been a great deal of research on the effects exhibited by medicinal materials. To study the effects, resources that can systematically describe the chemical compounds in medicinal materials are necessary. In recent years, numerous databases on medicinal materials and constituent compounds have been constructed. However, because these databases provi...

The Holy Land has absorbed millions of immigrants in recent centuries: Jews from East and West, Druze, Circassians, Muslim and Christian Arabs. The land is unique and diverse in geographical location and ethnic groups, and also in its cultural characteristics, including traditional medicine and use of materia medica. However, these traditions have waned over the years. The young state of Israel...

BACKGROUND Investigations into knowledge about food and medicinal plants in a certain geographic area or within a specific group are an important element of ethnobotanical research. This knowledge is context specific and dynamic due to changing ecological, social and economic circumstances. Migration processes affect food habits and the knowledge and use of medicinal plants as a result of adapt...

Higher plants have provided the necessities of life such as food, shelter, and clothing to humanity from the very beginning of human civilization. In addition to that, they have also been the most important source of medicine for the treatment of various ailments since time immemorial. Although there has been considerable development in the areas of synthetic drug chemistry and antibiotics, pla...

Traditional medicines are ingredients in the form of plant ingredients, animal mineral galenic preparations, or mixtures these materials which have been used for generations treatment and can be applied accordance with norms force society, while herbal medicine is a Medicine made Indonesia. The purpose this research to increase understanding importance increasing regarding processing instant ra...