Medicinal plants have been the mainstay of traditional herbal medicine amongst rural dwellers worldwide since antiquity to date. The therapeutic use of plants certainly goes back to the Sumerian and the Akkadian civilizations in about the third millenium BC. Hippocrates (ca. 460–377 BC), one of the ancient authors who described medicinal natural products of plant and animal origins, listed appr...

E nzyme therapies are becoming more prevalent in medicine today, with many manufacturers targeting their advantages in disease treatment. In the last 100 years, enzymes have been increasingly used to treat various diseases. Early observations of Bacillus pyocyaneus revealed that its secretions could destroy anthrax bacilli and protect mice from inoculation with this deadly bacterium. Scientists...

Graptophyllum pictum is a plant used in medicine from the time of Ayurveda, ancient system Indian medicine. This review article presented to give an insight on all updated information its pharmacological activities. Studies indicated that G. possesses diverse medicinal properties such as anti-inflammatory, nephroprotective, antidiabetic, oxytocic, and anti-implantation properties. comprehends n...

1 Beijing Key Laboratory of Innovative Drug Discovery of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Natural Medicine) and Translational Medicine, Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China, 2 Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substances and Resource Utilization of Chinese Herbal Medicine, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China, 3 Z...

ArisaemajacquemontiiBlume (Araceae) is reputed for its physiological properties in the folk medicine system and used in Chinese herbal medicine as anti-convulsant. Methanolic extracts of roots and fruits, the chloroform extracts of roots and shoots of ArisaemajacquemontiiBlume were investigated for immunomodulatory,antileishmanialand phytotixic activities. Immunomodulatory activitywas investiga...

Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn (Family- Nymphaeaceae) is a well known plant in ancient medical sciences, Much research have been done on the leaves, flowers, seeds and rhizomes of the plant, Our present aim is to review all the work performed on the plant to get a clear idea to evaluate its various medicinal principles relating to phytochemical pharmacological microbiological and allied approaches.

BACKGROUND The presence of hair plays an important role in people's overall physical appearance and self-perception. As a result of increased life expectancy, the desire to look youthful plays a bigger role than ever.The use of medicinal plants is as old as mankind and the market will face many new products containing natural oils and herbs in coming years. In traditional Iranian medicine, many...