Background: Dysmenorrhea is a major individual and public health problem in women. Recently, according to the high prevalence of dysmenorrhea, different medical treatments including herbal medicines have been used. Objective: The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of ginger on dysmenorrhea severity in students in Qazvin University of Medical Science, Iran. Methods: In this randomize...

Traditional concoctions sold in marketplaces are always assumed to be safe and efficient; however, they can be potentially toxic because of poor hygienic practices in plant processing or storage. The present study aimed to assess for the microbial quality of market-sold vegetable drugs in Lomé. Thus, a total of 209 plant remedies were collected in marketplaces and analysed for the presence of t...

This would in some way explain his sudden departure for the first Italian journey soon after his wedding in 1494 which by some biographers was attributed to the outbreak of plague in Nuremberg. The engraving 'The Doctor's Dream' dated before 1500 is, together with some other graphic works, interpreted as a moralizing warning of syphilis, but it has received a different interpretation by Robert ...

M. Segasothy, Department of Medicine, University Kebangsaan Malaysia, Jalan Raja Muda, Kuala Lumpur 50300 (Malaysia) Dear Sir, Analgesic nephropathy has most commonly been attributed to the excessive consumption of analgesic compounds commonly containing aspirin, phenacetin and caffeine. Occasional examples of renal papillary necrosis with individual analgesics such as aspirin, indomethacin or ...

background: sore throat is one of the major complications of tracheal intubation after general anesthesia. harpagophytum is an herbal medicine, the anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects of which have been demonstrated in various studies. we studied the effects of single dose harpagophytum one hour before tracheal intubation, to prevent the sore throat after extubation. methods: in a randomize...

This study was designed to determine the therapeutic efficacy and safety of the Shi-cha capsule, a Chinese herbal formula, in the treatment of patients with wind-cold type common cold. In our multi-center, prospective, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, dose-escalation trial, patients with wind-cold type common cold received 0.6 g of Shi-cha capsule plus 0.6 g placebo (group A), 1.2 ...

Planterosomes, term “PLANTERO” means plant while “SOME” means celllike. A novel emerging technique applied to phytopharmaceutical for the enhancement of bioavailability of herbal extract for medicinal applications. Since the two major limiting factors for molecules to pass the biological membrane for their absorption in the blood stream mainly includes lipid solubility and molecular sizes. Ther...

objective: in this study, the current literatures on the use of herbs and herbal preparations of traditional chinese and indian medicine for the treatment of opioid addiction were reviewed. methods: search was done in databases such as pub med, science direct, scopus, springer link, and google scholar. results: among 18 retrieved studies, 3 studies were about asafetida extract, an approved prep...