Nigella sativa had been documented to possess many therapeutic functions in medicine but the least expected is sero-reversion in HIV infection which is very rare despite extensive therapy with highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART). This case presentation is to highlight the complete recovery and sero-reversion of adult HIV patient after treatment with Nigella sativa concoction for the p...

Background: The seeds of Nigella sativa plant have been used to promote health and fight disease for centuries especially in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. This plant has been a great focus of research. This clinical study was undertaken to determine the adjuvant effect of Nigella sativa oil on various clinical and biochemical parameters of the metabolic syndrome. Methodology: This prospec...

BACKGROUND Vitiligo is one of the autoimmune skin diseases that destroy the melanocytes of the skin. Moreover, its prevalence varies in different countries and regions. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to compare the effect of Nigella sativa and fish oil on vitiligo lesions of the patients referred to a dermatology clinic. MATERIALS AND METHODS This randomized, double blind clinical tri...

Introduction: Amphotericin B is considered as one of the most effective antifungal drugs presently used to treat systemic fungal infections; however, nephrotoxicity remains the major side effect. The current study is therefore, designed to determine Amphotericin B induced nephrotoxicity and its prevention by administration of Nigella sativa (NS) extract in albino mice. Materials and Methods: Th...

Black Seed The date and location of domestication of Nigella sativa is not clearly established, but the plant was certainly under wide cultivation more than 3000 years ago, when it was placed in the tomb of Egyptian King Tutankhamun. Historical evidence also shows contemporaneous, or earlier, black seed cultivation in Jordan and Iraq. In addition, wild types of Nigella sativa grow in Turkey, Sy...

Die Möglichkeit einer Differenzierung zwischen dikotylen (Betula vulgaris, Galium aperine, Cirsium arvensis, Stellaria media, Viola arvensis) und monokotylen (Triticum aestivum, Poa annua, Apera spica-venti, Alopecurus myosuroides) Pflanzenarten anhand ihrer LIF-Parameter von der Blattoberund Unterseite wurde geprüft. Diskriminanzanalyse anhand von Fluoreszenzmessungen der Blattoberseite ergab ...

The present article deals with recording ethnomedicinal plants used by the people living in and around Dhaka city also focuses on plant species during pandemic to get relief from COVID-19. information was gathered using open-ended semi-structured questionnaires 348 informants belonging different classes of life. survey has resulted a total 160 medicinal 62 families for 157 ailments through 250 ...

Field trials were conducted over a three-year period (2009 to 2011) to evaluate the efficacy of pendimethalin preplant-incorporated (PPI), bentazon, fomesafen, bentazon plus fomesafen, or halosulfuron applied postemergence (POST) and the sequential application of pendimethalin applied PPI followed by bentazon, fomesafen, bentazon plus fomesafen or halosulfuron applied POST in white bean in Onta...

M ichael Storck and M aria D. Sacristán Institut für Angewandte Genetik, Albrecht-Thaer-Weg 6, D-14195 Berlin, Bundesrepublik Deutschland Z. Naturforsch. 50c, 15-20 (1995); received September 19, 1994 Brassica spp., Sinapis arvensis, Leptosphaeria maculans, Resistance, Indole Phytoalexins Brassica juncea, Brassica carinata and Sinapis arvensis resistant lines to Leptosphaeria maculans and four ...