BACKGROUND Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use, including herbals and multivitamin supplements, is quite common in the U.S., and has been shown to be highest in breast cancer survivors. However, limited data are currently available for CAM usage among African Americans. Thus, we sought to determine the prevalence of multivitamins, folic acid and herbal supplement usage in African A...

BACKGROUND Despite availability of several therapeutic options for smoking cessation, their usages are limited due to high cost and adverse effect profiles. Recently, more attention has been paid to investigating herbals for smoking cessation. OBJECTIVES To review relevant evidences on the efficacy and safety of herbals for smoking cessation. METHODS We searched clinical studies evaluating ...

Dysmenorrhea, originally Greek, is explained in the literature as in the following: Dys means difficult, painful or abnormal, meno means month and rrhea means flow or discharge [1]. Clinically, it refers to pain during menstruation severe enough to prevent daily activities and to require taking analgesics [2]. Briefly, it means painful periods. One of the most important gynaecological complaint...

to express their ideas, feeling, and imagination, a large number of ancient arab poets employed terminologies current in that period, especially those related to spices and herbals and their advantages. their main impetus came from their investigative instinct as well as their religious beliefs that emphasize the importance of herbals for their medical and nutritional benefits. hence, such subj...

Many cultures have used plants to treat medical affections and a percentage of modern medicines are obtained from plants. Today, several herbals have been screened for anticancer activity and many patients with cancer take plant extracts in addition to chemotherapy. This review offers an overview of the knowledge about the use of herbals and derivatives as a viable anticancer alternative therap...