To find possible therapeutic applications involving the Central Nervous System (CNS) for herbals is a major challenge during functional food and drug discovery and development programmes. Despite the availability of numerous in vitro and in vivo tests, there is no single agreed screening procedure for pharmacological testing of herbal extracts with anticipated CNS activity. Experience gained fr...

objective: premenstrual syndromes (pms) affecting 20-40% of women of reproductive age. the aim of this double blind and placebo controlled trial was to investigate whether femicofort a supplement contains vitamin b6, vitamin e and evening primrose oil could relieve symptoms of pms. method: this was a randomized and double blind clinical trial. the trial was conducted between november 2009 and a...

disadvantages such as indeterminate inflorescence and high seed shattering during ripening are significant restrictions to introduce evening primrose as a commercial medicinal plant. following to the last works, a pot experiment was conducted to clarify the influence of defoliation before harvest on the seed yield, oil and gla (gamma-linolenic acid) percentage of evening primrose growing under ...

Lamyropsis (Charadze) Dittrich (Asteraceae) was erected to generic rank and clearly de"ned by Dittrich (1971). It is a member of tribe Cardueae Cass. subtribe Carduinae Dumort. and most closely related to the genera Cirsium and Ptilostemon. It currently comprises a total of 8 perennial species distributed from S Europe eastwards to Central Asia (Bremer, 1994). The morphological links of the gen...