The scientific evidence of ethnobotany related to health-food plants use, is an urgent request referring to the botanical-based food supplements. The necessity to verify its scientific validity springs from the fact that plants produce thousands of active metabolites, not always quantifiable one by one. From this complex picture, it is clear that we need to define some criteria to be used in th...

Objective: The present study is based on an ethnobotanical research project conducted in Hormozgan province that is located in south of Iran, bordering waters of the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea. This survey was carried out in order to recover the ethnobotanical and ethnomedicinal knowledge of the residents of this province. They are using medicinal and functional plants for treating or preventing...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative, aerobic bacterium found in water and soil. It is a normal flora in skin and gastrointestinal tract of human beings. P. aeruginosa as an opportunistic pathogen involved in nosocomial infections having multiple pathogenic factors and shows high rate of resistance to different antibiotics. The aim of this study was to identify th...

Objective: An ethnobotanical survey on the medicinal plant species marketed in Mashhad city, northeastern Iran, was conducted in order to document traditional medicinal knowledge and application of medicinal plants. Materials and Methods: This study was undertaken between 2011 and 2012. The indigenous knowledge of traditional healers used for medicinal purposes were collected through questionna...

The ethnobotanicol survey was made during last two years in the tribal population of Madhya Pradesh. Valuable information about tho medicinal use of certain plants used against Diarrhoea and dysentery amongst tribal population were obtained by personal interviews. The medicinal properties or those plants are also given in this communications.

Medicinal plants have aided in the establishment and expansion of modern healthcare system. Plants with medicinal potential are still only way forward, as their acceptance recognition spread over globe. Ethnobotany is an interdisciplinary field that studies how people use daily lives. Nigeria accounted for roughly 20% Africa's population slightly more than half West projected 681,000 new cancer...