Malaria is one of the most common major health problems all over the world. Pharmacotherapy is the most common treatment strategy for the disease. But, the main obstacle behind this is emergence of resistance for many of these drugs. Hence, to overcome this problem, the major option available since ancient times is medicinal plants all over the world. Mankind is blessed with wide range of herba...

for centuries, herbal drugs have been the only accessible resource for treatment of pain and passions. today, despite remarkable progress and development of synthetic drugs, medicinal plants and their derived drugs are used massively. so that, in some countries medicinal plants is inseparable from drugs and treatment systems. more ever, their marketing and economical aspects are more flourishin...

Medicinal plants have a long history of use in therapy throughout the world and still make an important part of traditional medicine. Thus, medicinal plants and herbal products must be safe for the patient (consumer). This review addresses biological contaminants (microbes and other organisms) and chemical contaminants (mycotoxins, toxic elements such as heavy metals, and pesticide residues) as...

The people of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, still depend, to a large extent, on traditional herbal medicine for the treatment of various diseases and ailments. This includes the use of plants for the treatment of wounds. Information collected from the traditional healers, the Sangomas, has revealed 38 plant species that are used for the treatment of wounds in the Province. The plants...

Aromatic plants have been used worldwide in human diet to improve the flavor and taste of meals or as herbal infusions. Beyond the culinary purposes, these plants are also used for their medicinal purposes, as antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, antimutagenic and anti-carcinogenic, among others. In the present study, 39 species of condiments and/or herbal infusions were assessed in order to provi...

BACKGROUND Medicinal plants in Uganda and other developing countries have been scientifically demonstrated to have medicinal benefits but few or none have been translated to products for clinical use. Most herbal products developed by local herbalists and sold to the public are not standardized and lack efficacy and safety data to support use. OBJECTIVE To formulate from two Ugandan medicinal...

Many studies in the past have revealed the use of the indigenous medicinal plant for the treatment of various diseases in Saudi Arabia. However, the details of these indigenous essential medicinal herbs and their therapeutic implication against various human and animals diseases are not well documented and organised in a local platform. In this regard, a thorough mining of scholarly article for...

BACKGROUND The medicinal plants used by herbalists in Kenya have not been well documented, despite their widespread use. The threat of complete disappearance of the knowledge on herbal medicine from factors such as deforestation, lack of proper regulation, overexploitation and sociocultural issues warrants an urgent need to document the information. The purpose of the study was to document info...

the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of dietary euphorbia hirta and an acidifier mixture supplementation on gut morphology and some blood parameters of broiler chickens.a total of 240 day old male broiler chicks were randomly assigned to one ofthe four dietary treatment groups including: (1) basal diet (control), (2) basal diet + 7.5 g/kg e. hirta (eh7.5), (3) basal diet + 1.5 g/kg ...

Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) is increasingly used in Germany and Europe. Due to the need for herbal drugs of consistent quality and reliable supply, methods for commercial field cultivation and post-harvest processing under south German conditions have been developed for selected plant species used in CHM since 1999. The project used an interdisciplinary approach covering all aspects from seed...