Rheumatoid Arthritis is a chronic, inflammatory, systemic autoimmune disease characterized by pain, swelling and stiffness. Allopathic medications have been prescribed to alleviate symptoms of this disease that results into associated side effects like gastrointestinal disorders, cardiovascular risks, immunodeficiency, hepatotoxicity and renal toxicity. The use of herbal medicine is becoming po...

Onosma L. as a rich taxa in Boraginaceae including about 150–180 species, centered mainly in Irano-Turanian region. The genus faced with several systematic complexities lead to many identification problems as well as morphological polymorphism. Several authors have used setae characteristics in Onosma as the most important diagnostic evidence in delimitation and classification of species in add...

In this study, the antibacterial and cytotoxic activities of isolated compounds from the roots of Onosma visianii were investigated. By using different chromatographic techniques and appropriate spectroscopic methods, the seven naphthoquinones were described: deoxyshikonin ( 1 ), isobutyrylshikonin ( 2 ), α-methylbutyrylshikonin ( 3 ), acetylshikonin ( 4 ), β-hydroxyisovalerylshikonin ( 5 ), 5,...

background & aim: onosma stenosiphon has been used as herbal medicine for healing skin cuts and rashes. however, burn healing effect of this herb has not been yet reported in pharmaceutical texts. the aim of this study was to find out the effect of herb ointment on burn healing the superficial wounds post type ii burns of back and testis region in wistar rats. experimental: a total of 24 r...