jaundice is the commonest ailments affecting the citizens of both developed and poor asians countries including iran. an ethnobotanical survey of plants used by the traditional healers for the treatment of jaundice was conducted in the mashhad city, northeastern iran. a total of 37 plants belonging to 32 genera and 26 families have been documented for their therapeutic use against jaundice. the...

this experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of camelthorn (alhagi sp.) as a foraghe in the diet of balouchi sheep (during the last two months of gestation and two months of lactation) where 72 ewes in a completely randomized design with three treatments (diets) and four replications were used. experimental diets were : 1) wheat straw 50%, alfalfa hay 30% and barley grain 20%, as contro...

background and objectives: alzheimer's disease (ad) as a neurodegenerative disorder is the most common form of dementia in the elderly. according to the amyloid hypothesis, accumulation of amyloid beta (aβ) plaques, which are mostly constituted of aβ peptide aggregates, triggers pathological cascades that lead to neuronal cell death. thus, modulation of aβ toxicity is the hopeful therapeut...

background: constipation is a common complaint during pregnancy. iranian traditional medicine (itm) has some recommendations for this complaint. objective: in this study, interventions of constipation in pregnancy have been presented and their efficacy and safety evidence were reviewed from modern literature. methods: interventions selected based upon the chapters related to health protection o...

bruchidius fulvus allard is a biological control agent of camelthorn weed (alhagi camelorum fisch.) in birjand region. efficiency of b. fulvus for biological control of camelthorn weed was studied by separate experiments in laboratory and natural conditions based on crd in 2009. so in average, 35±1.15 and 48±1.04% of the seeds in the legumes destroyed in the spring sampling (early of may) and i...

Artemisia sieberi (Asteraceae) is an important perennial plant that common in the pastures, mountains and deserts of Iran. In 2019, A. showing little leaf, yellowing, internode shortening witches’-broom symptoms (Fig. 1) were observed around Abarkooh (Yazd province, Iran). The disease incidence was up to 5%. Total DNA extracted from 0.2 g fresh midrib tissue 10 diseased five symptomless plants ...