background: we aimed to assess the effects of anise on quality of life (qol) of patients with functional dyspepsia (fd) in a double-blind randomized clinical trial. materials and methods: of 180 patients attending the gastroenterology clinic, 107 ones with the diagnosis of postprandial distress syndrome according to rome iii criteria were enrolled. they were randomized into two groups, anise an...

Cancer incidence is much lower in India than in western countries. The reason is not fully understood, but the high spice consumption could be one of the contributing factors. Anise is one of the plants grows in India and people from our region believe that anise seeds are helpful in cancer prevention and treatment. In this study, anticancer activity of ethanol extract of anise (Pimpinella anis...

In this paper, we present HYSSOP, a system that generates natural language hypertext summaries of insights resulting from a knowledge discovery process. We discuss the synergy between the two technologies underlying HYSSOP: Natural Language Generation (NLG) and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD). We first highlight the advantages of natural language hypertext as a summarization medium for K...

To find a new and safe alternative to conventional insecticides, we evaluated the fumigant toxicity of eight Lamiaceae essential oils and their constituents against the adult rice weevil Sitophilus oryzae. Of the eight species tested, hyssop (Hyssopus offcinalis), majoram (Origanum majorana), and Thymus zygis essential oils showed strong fumigant toxicity against S. oryzae adults at 25 mg/L air...

BACKGROUND We aimed to evaluate the effects of Pimpinella anisum (anise) from Apiaceae family on relieving the symptoms of postprandial distress syndrome (PDS) in this double-blind randomized clinical trial. MATERIALS AND METHODS Totally, 107 patients attending the gastroenterology clinic, aged 18-65 years, diagnosed with PDS according to ROME III criteria and signed a written consent form we...

The anti-inflammatory potential of hydrophilic polyphenolic-rich extracts obtained from native Australian herbs: anise myrtle, lemon myrtle and Tasmannia pepper leaf, and a reference sample bay leaf, was evaluated using the lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-activated murine macrophage RAW 264.7 model. Pretreatment with all herbal extracts at non-cytotoxic concentrations reduced the LPS-induced protein l...

The phenylpropene t-anethole imparts the characteristic sweet aroma of anise (Pimpinella anisum, family Apiaceae) seeds and leaves. Here we report that the aerial parts of the anise plant accumulate t-anethole as the plant matures, with the highest levels of t-anethole found in fruits. Although the anise plant is covered with trichomes, t-anethole accumulates inside the leaves and not in the tr...

this study was carried out to evaluate the effect of different levels of anise seed on the performance, immune system, antioxidant activity and blood estrogen level of broiler chicks. a total of 192 day -old ross 308 broilers were trained for 42 days in a completely randomized design with four treatments, four replicates and 12 birds per each replicate. treatments were included the levels of ze...

ANISE exploits knowledge encoded in controlled vocabularies to precisely visualize 3D Medical images. ANISE receives 3D images annotated with existing medical ontologies and performs reasoning tasks to improve effectiveness of organs and tissues visualization. Data of a Computed Tomography Head is used to show the benefits of considering semantic annotations and the precision achieved by a visu...