Burdock plant is one of the important medicinal plants, critical part which roots used to clearance body toxins; study aimed stimulate burdock seed germination and seedling growth with low-cost treatments, represented by electric shock irradiation low doses gamma rays on seeds. The experiment was implemented at Medical Aromatic Plants Research Unit, College Agricultural Engineering Sciences, Un...

BACKGROUND Arctium lappa, known as burdock, is widely used in popular medicine for hypertension, gout, hepatitis and other inflammatory disorders. Pharmacological studies indicated that burdock roots have hepatoprotective, anti-inflammatory, free radical scavenging and antiproliferative activities. The aim of this study was to evaluate total phenolic content, radical scavenging activity by DPPH...

Background: Malassezia spp. is an opportunistic dimorphicBasidiomycetous fungi associated with a variety of diseasesincluding dandruff, atopic eczema, pityriasis versicolor, seborrheicdermatitis and folliculitis. It also causes systemic infectionsin immune compromised patients. The aim of this study wasto evaluate the antimicrobial activity of nettle leaves (Urticadioica), colocynths fruits (Ci...

This study was carried out to evaluate the effects of Arctium lappa L. (burdock) on the liver of adult male Wistar rats as measured by light microscopy and biochemical parameters. The rats received the extract in water bottles at doses of 10 or 20 g/L daily for 40 days. There were no significant changes in the plasma levels of albumin, aspartate transaminase (AST), alanine transaminase (ALT), g...

BACKGROUND: Breast cancer is a major cause of morbidity, mortality, and medical expenditures among women in Canada. Essiac (Resperin Canada Limited, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada), a blend of at least four herbs (burdock root [Arctium lappa], Indian rhubarb [Rheum palmatum], sheep sorrel [Rumex acetosella], and the inner bark of slippery elm [Ulmus fulva or U. rubra]), has become one of the more po...

The Arctium lappa L. plant, commonly known as burdock, has been used therapeutically for hundreds of years. Arctigenin (ATG) is an active ingredient in albeit at low quantities or mostly the form acrtiin (arctigenin-4-glucoside). ATG touted its anti-inflammatory properties many cell types and disease states; however, role skin melanin production not extensively studied. Our aims this study were...