In this research work, the antioxidant and metabolomic profiling of seven selected medicinally important herbs including Rauvolfia serpentina, Terminalia arjuna, Coriandrum sativum, Elettaria cardamom, Piper nigrum, Allium sativum, and Crataegus oxyacantha was performed. The in vivo cardioprotective potential of these medicinal plants was evaluated against surgically induced oxidative stress th...

Safflower, false saffron [English]; cártamo, alazor, azafrán bastardo, azafranillo [Spanish]; carthame des teinturiers, safran des teinturiers, safran bâtard [French]; açafrão-bastardo [Portuguese]; saffloer [Dutch]; Färberdistel, saflor [German]; kesumba [Indonesian/Javanese]; cartamo, zafferanone [Italian]; aspir [Turkish]; [Amharic]; رفصع [Arabic]; [Bengali]; 红花 [Chinese]; עירח [Hebrew]; ベニバ...

Two Carthamus tinctorius varieties (Jawhara and 104) were studied in order to investigate their natural dyes contents and biological activities. Obtained results showed that quinochalcone contents and antioxidant activities varied considerably as function of flowering stages. So flowers at fructification stage contained the highest carthamin content with the strongest antioxidant capacity with ...

Pigments extracted from natural products are widely used for food coloration in Japan. An investigation concerning the photo-mutagenicity and photo-carcinogenicity of frequently used colorants in Japan was performed. Colorants examined were from Laccifer lacca (lac-color), Coccus cacti (cochineal-color), Carthamus tinctorius (carthamus yellow), Gardenia augusta (gardenia yellow and gardenia blu...

South Asian Regions including India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are very rich in medicinal plants and have about 10% of world’s plant diversity. The traditional systems of medicine have deep penetration in this region. A large proportion of the society here, purely or largely have to depend on these systems. The reason behind is the effectiveness of these traditional healing systems or is the soci...

Purpose: To explore the effects of Carthamus tinctorius L. extract (CTLE) on diethylnitrosamine (DEN)induced liver cirrhosis in rats. Methods: CTLE was obtained by extracting the dried Carthamus tinctorius L. in water. Liver cirrhosis was induced by injecting the rats with DEN once a week for 8 weeks. Following this treatment, clinical biochemical assessments, as well as oxidative stress test a...

although wild safflower (c.oxyacantha, 2n=24) has not been studied to a very large extent, yet it is believed that it can be used as an important source of biotic and abiotic stress resistance genes for improvement of cultivated safflower (c.tinctorius l., 2n=2x=24). in this study, the crossability between these two (cultivated and wild safflower) species was evaluated as based upon morphology ...

The dye used on the silk textiles in an as yet undated relic shrine in a church in Antwerp was analysed by reflectance UV-Vis spectrometry. The natural dyestuff carthamin from safflower (Carthamus tinctorius) was detected; because of its very poor light fastness this does not allow the shrine to be exhibited. Neither does it allow dating of the silk, since safflower has been used over a period ...

The genus Dolichosciara from China is reviewed and 17 species are recognized. Among them, eight new species, D. sparsula sp. nov., D. gracilenta sp. nov., D. oxyacantha sp. nov., D. scrobiculata sp. nov., D. tumidula sp. nov., D. rectospinosa sp. nov., D. multisetosa sp. nov. and D. qingliangfengana sp. nov. are described and seven species, D. ninae (Antonova, 1977), D. megumiae (Sasakawa, 1994...