Objective: Asafoetida (Ferula assa-foetida) is known as a valuable remedy for whooping cough, pneumonia, bronchitis in children and asthma treatment in folk medicine. In the present study the relaxant effects of the asafoetida on tracheal smooth muscle of guinea pigs and its probable mechanism(s) were examined. Materials and Methods: The relaxant effects of three cumulative concentrations of th...

Ferula asafoetida is a plant from Umbelliferae Family, which its gum traditionally used to treat the gastrointestinal disorders (parasite, bloating, digestion, cancer). According traditional applications, subject of this review was evaluate efficacy F. in management different modern medicine. For purpose, scientific resources (PubMed, Web Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, SpringerLink, SciFinder...

Asafoetida, Fig, Grapes, Almond, Walnut and Apple are the major commodities traded from Afghan’s country, having share in terms of quantity commodités exportable agricultural Afghanistan which has many other benefits on economy national income. The présent study evaluates Trade also export performance commodités. analysis was made using compound annual growth rate descriptive statistics analysi...

Objective: Control of weight gain is an important strategy in reducing the diabetes incidence. Recently, herbal drugs have been used as a complementary and alternative medicinal care. This study was conducted to determine the effect of Ferula asafoetida on weight gain, fat accumulation, liver steatosis and leptin level. Materials and Methods: All rats of control and treatment groups received d...

asafoetida is the dried latex exuded from the living underground rhizome or tap root of ferula assafoetida. antibacterial characteristic of asafoetida was shown using the circular zone diameter of bacterial growth inhibition by disk-diffusion method on two gram positive and three gram negative bacteria. then, the bacterial genomic dna damage, induced by f. assafoetida latex, was demonstrated us...

Long term alcohol consumption is one of the important causes for liver failure and death. To complicate the existing problem there are no dependable hepatoprotective drugs and a large number of patients prefer using complementary and alternative medicines for treating and managing hepatic complications. Almost 25 centuries ago, Hippocrates, the father of medicine, proclaimed "Let food be thy me...