3 Zhongxian Xu, Hang Jie, Binlong Chen, Uma Gaur 1 , Mingyao Yang 1 , Nan Wu 1 , 4 Jian Gao, Pinming Li, Guijun Zhao, Dejun Zeng and Diyan Li 5 1 Farm Animal Genetic Resources Exploration and Innovation Key Laboratory of Sichuan 6 Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China 7 2 Laboratory of Medicinal Animal, Chongqing Institute of Medicinal Plant Cultivation, Nanchuan, 8 Chongqin...

The fruit fly Drosophila has been an extensively important system for investigating various aspects in life science including medicinal sciences. This fly Drosophila is richly contributed to our understanding the aging pattern, neurodegenerative diseases and its use as a model organism in future, especially in the field of medicine. The utility of the Drosophila resides in two resources: its sm...

Using ethnobotanical techniques, the medicinal flora used by the inhabitants of San Rafael Coxcatlán, Puebla was determined. During the field work, two types of interviews were applied (free listing and semi-structured) to 60 informants, who supplied consistent information concerning the use of 46 species of medicinal plants. Further analysis showed 13 categories of different medicinal use. An ...

Background & Aim: Kazeroon, with an area of about 4060 km², is situated at 110 km in the west of Shiraz, Fars province, Iran. This area is important for plant biodiversity, due to the presence of some important habitats such as international Lake of Parishan in the southeast, woodlands of Quercus persica in the east and branches of Shahpoor river in the west of the region. Therefore, f...

Historians have examined the significant contributions John and William Bartram made to 18th- and 19th-century knowledge of indigenous North American flora. However, the Bartrams' contribution to medicinal botanical knowledge, particularly William Bartram's compilation of Indians' knowledge on the preparation and use of medicinal botanicals, is not well-known. In addition, while William Bartram...

Medicinal plant markets provide not only a snapshot of a country’s medicinal flora, but also of the importance of herbal medicine among its inhabitants and their concerns about health and illness. During a market survey in 2006, we collected data on the diversity, source, and volume of plants being sold and exported, and the preferences of urban consumers in Suriname. More than 245 species of m...

The search for new pharmaceuticals from naturally occurring biological materials has been guided by ethnobiological data. The investigation of folk medicine is a valuable tool in bioprospecting for pharmaceutical compounds (Costa-Neto 2002), and natural product drug development is key to the pharmaceutical industry. Over the past decade, research on medicinal plants has increasingly used histor...

Due to destruction of forest wealth and natural flora the sources of herbal medicine are becoming increasingly rare. So, it is high time to discover alternative sources of such drugs among plant species that are already available in large numbers. As a first installment of the series the medicinal properties of a few members of the family Phytolaccaceae are discussed here.

Studies on the flora and ethnobotany of the tribals of chinnar wildlife sanctuary were carried out. Though the sancturary has over 200 species of medicinal plants, the tribals are using 55 species, Ethnobotanical details of 64 species used by the tribals in the sanctuary are presented in this paper.

Abstract Historia Naturalis Brasiliae, a reference work for Brazilian natural sciences, contains information on species observed by 17th century naturalists. Among the reports, botanical family Fabaceae deserves to be highlighted among taxa that make up flora due its richness of and economic interest. In this sense, objective present study was retrieve regarding cited in Brasiliae naturalists P...