Background: The use of medicinal plants is an option for livestock farmers who are not allowed to use allopathic drugs under certified organic programs or cannot afford to use allopathic drugs for minor health problems of livestock. Methods: In 2003 we conducted semi-structured interviews with 60 participants obtained using a purposive sample. Medicinal plants are used to treat a range of condi...

This study reports the essential oil composition and antioxidant activity of the essential oil extract of aerial parts of Achillea Wilhelmsii. GC/MS analysis identified thirty compounds representing 94.48% of the oil. The main components comprising 86.99% of the oil were α-thujene (6.11%), α-pinene (5.11%), sabinene (5.23%), p-cymene (7%), 1,8-cineole (6%), linalool(10%), camphor (8.43%), thymo...

Background & Aim: Achillea (Fam. Asteraceae) is a medicinal plant and different species of it have several uses in the folk medicine all around the world. Achillea species are used for feverish conditions, common cold, digestive complaints, slow healing wounds and skin inflammations. This study aims to investigate the essential oil composition and antioxidant activities from t...

Abstract Speech is one of the natural ways communication between humans, later extended as a means for human–computer interaction. It helps visually impaired people to read electronic texts and used in information retrieval language education. This paper proposed development text-to-speech synthesizer Afan Oromo (Oromo Language), using unit selection speech approaches. Although several works ha...

conclusions according to antioxidant activity outcomes, the amount of ic50s of aqueous extracts of flower and stem and also butylated hydroxyl toluene (bht) as standard were 232.34, 63.25 and 45.59 ppm respectively. ultimately, it was highlighted that antioxidant activity of aqueous extract of flower was weaker than stem. results sixty one compounds were identified in the essential oil of the f...

Achillea millefolium belong to the asteraceae family and from genus achillea. In this study essential oils were extracted from all aerial parts via hydro distillation (HD) method by clevenger set . By using of gas chromatography/mass spectrometry ( GC-MS) technique the chemicals component essential oil were identified. About 41 components with were identified which encompassed 97.66 percent of ...

Atividades Físicas de Aventura na Natureza (AFAN) constituem alternativas muito buscadas em contraponto ao estilo vida urbanizado, o que estabelece objetivo deste estudo, qual visa analisar os motivos pelos quais as pessoas aderem montanhismo como atividade lazer e a influência do mesmo qualidade dos praticantes. Este estudo foi realizado por intermédio uma pesquisa quali-quantitativa, com entr...

Skin wound healing especially when it occurs on the face or somewhere important for cosmetic reasons, is very significant physiological procedure. It is quite obvious that promoting this healing is important too. In this study we tried to compare the effects of Achillea millefolium and Zinc oxide on secondary intentioned open-wound healing in rats. Zinc oxide is being used worldwide as an absor...