Herbal medicines play an increasingly important role in the perception of physicians and patients looking for equally effective, albeit safer approaches to conventional management of acute bronchitis. A no antibiotic or delayed antibiotic prescribing strategy to reduce the inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics for respiratory tract infections (RTI) has been advocated since the late 1990’s (L...

Pelargonium species contribute significantly to the health care of a large population in the Southern African region, as part of a long-standing medical system intimately linked to traditional healing practices. Most notably, extracts of the roots of P. sidoides have commonly been applied for the treatment of dysentery and diarrhoea but only occasionally for respiratory complaints. Clinical tri...

Despite widespread use, few empirical data on the efficacy of traditional medicine are available. We conducted systematic reviews of eight widely used African medicines and identified only one plant, Pelargonium sidoides, which has been extensively studied (including in a Cochrane systematic review). To address the need for rigorous science to underpin traditional medicine claims, the South Afr...

Abstract The evaluation of chemical similarity is very significant for the and standardization quality herbal medicines as biological activity depends on composition proportion many individual components. Many health organizations have recommended profiling consistency medicines. In this study, was performed to evaluate between batches Pelargonium sidoides maltodextrin mixture (PMM) from EPs® 7...