weichang’an (wca) pill, a traditional chinese patent medicine consisting of ten chinese medicinal herbs, has been used to treat irritable bowel syndrome and functional dyspepsia for several decades. in this study, twelve bioactive constituents in the methanol extract of wca were accurately identified since ms/ms fragmentation behavior of the references and the standards by using hplc-dad-esi-ms...

The objective of this research was to investigate the effects of a natural herb extract on the general performance, carcass parameters and mortality of broiler chicks. A total of 720 one-day old chicks (Cobb 500) were used in the experiment and randomly partitioned into nine pens (80 chicks per pen). Three experimental diets (C: regular starter feed; CC plus: regular starter feed supplemented w...

I conducted small-mammal trapping surveys on a desert scrub restoration site in Palm Springs, California, to document concomitant recovery of the rodent community. These surveys were conducted following quantitative vegetation sampling efforts that indicated that a predefined successful restoration criterion of 15% total shrub cover had been met throughout most of the area. But shrub cover, nat...

This study was carried out to investigate the effect of different waters; tap water (control), sewage effluent (100 % & 50 %), sewage effluent with Scenedesmus quadricauda and sewage effluent with Nostoc sp. on plant growth, leaf chlorophyll and Assessment of hygienic (fungi) of wheat and alfalfa plants. The obtained results showed that plant height, herb weight (fresh and dry), total chlorophy...

abstract there is a world-wide effort to reduce the amount of chemicals used in crop production by introducing modern biological and ecological methods. one possible alternative is allelopathy. a laboratory trial was carried out to investigate of alleopathic potential of angelica . in this study the effect of different concentrations of aqueous extract of angelica herb was investigated on seed ...

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The total concentration of zinc, iron, nitrogen and phosphorus, as well as their water and acetic acid extractable forms – nitrate nitrogen, ammonium nitrogen and phosphate phosphorus – were determined in st. John’s wort herb (Hypericum perforatum l.) yarrow herb (Achillea millefolium l.), nettle leaves (Urtica dioica l.) and birch leaves (Betula pendula roth.), collected from four natural loca...

The littoral zone ecosystem of the Three Gorges Reservoir (TGR) has become significantly degraded by annual cycles of prolonged winter flooding and summer drought. For purposes of flood control and sediment management, the water level in the reservoir is lowered by 30 m during the summer monsoon season and raised again to 175 m above sea level each year at the end of the monsoon period. To expl...