Introduction: Ethnobotany involves an interdisciplinary approach encompassing the fields of botany, chemistry, pharmacology and anthropology. The usage of traditional and complementary medicine is on the increase in many developed and developing countries. Objective: The study was done to identify major medicinal plants, and also to document the traditional medicinal plants and their medicinal ...

Background: The use of knowledge of indigenous people in the use of plants can provide valuable information in the field of nutrition, treatment, and provide the basis for the production of drugs used in modern medicine. Objectives: The present study aimed to evaluate the level of recognition of the Ardestanian people to the medicinal plants of the region and introduction to some poisonous pla...

Over the last two decades, the consumption of medicinal plants has increased in Mongolia. Once banned by the post-revolutionary government, it is now valued by the practitioners of orthodox medicine, government as well as by the society. Yet the scientific community has to give this major and crucial component of traditional Mongolian medicine the attention it deserves, scientific knowledge abo...

fenugreek (trigonella foenum-graecum l.) has a long and respected history of medicinal uses in middle east and persian medicine. the hypocholesterolaemic and hypoglycaemic effects of fenugreek were attributed to its major steroidal sapogenin, diosgenin and its major alkaloid, trigonelline. the knowledge of diosgenin and trigonelline biosynthesis is derived from studies of cholesterol and nicoti...

BACKGROUND Medicinal plants used by the local people in Xizang (Tibet) have been investigated since the 1960s. The others out of Xizang, however, have been less understood, although they may be easily and strongly influenced by the various local herbal practices, diverse environments, local religious beliefs and different prevalent types of diseases. In 2006, two ethnobotanical surveys were org...

Man depends heavily on various plant species for his survival. Indian traditional system of medicine is based on empirical knowledge of the observations and the experience over millennia and more than 5000 plants are used by different ethnic communities in India. During the last few decades there has been an increasing interest in the study of medicinal plants and their traditional use in diffe...

there is inadequate knowledge about acute poisoning as a common problem in children. acute poisoning in children, , is one of the health problems, requiring immediate treatment. case report: a two-month-old male infant with discoloration of the nails was admitted to the emergency pediatric unit of imam reza hospital, mashhad, iran in 2014. following clinical evaluations, the blood lead level wa...

objective: an ethnobotanical survey on the medicinal plant species marketed in mashhad city, northeastern iran, was conducted in order to document traditional medicinal knowledge and application of medicinal plants. materials and methods: this study was undertaken between 2011 and 2012. the indigenous knowledge of traditional healers used for medicinal purposes were collected through questionna...

India with its knowledge of rich ancient traditional systems of medicine provides a strong base for the utilization of a large number of plants in general healthcare. Large number of herbal drugs existing in India, very few has been studied systematically so far. Solanum xanthocarpum is an important medicinal herb in Ayurvedic medicine. Various studies indicated that Solanum xanthocarpum posses...

We analyse the use of medicinal plants by local populations from two parishes in central Estonia in the 1930s applying a model of herbal landscape. Our study, based on archived records of traditional ecological knowledge of 11 schoolchildren and 5 adults, compares the individuals’ expertise of medicinal plants to the common knowledge of the local community. This shared knowledge, passed on from...