The plant Artemisia annua L. (Asteraceae) is listed in the Chinese pharmacopoeia as a remedy for various fevers including malaria, and contains the well-established antimalarial compound artemisinin. In this study, a hybrid form of A. annua was successfully cultivated in Central Africa. The aerial parts of the plant contained 0.63-0.70% artemisinin per dry weight, and approximately 40% of this ...

Essential oils obtained from aerial parts of Artemisia persica and Artemisia turcomanica were analyzed by GC/MS. While 28 components representing 91.01 % of A. persica were identified, the identity of 50 components, constituting 81.93 % of the total oil, was confirmed in A. turcomanica. β-thujone was the main compound (75.23%) in A. persica while the major identified phytochemicals in A. turcom...

To determine the effect of Artemisia sieberi lotion in signs & symptoms of Tinea versicolor, a randomized, double - blind clinical trial was performed comparing topical application of Artemisia sieberi lotion with Clotrimazole topical lotion, twice daily for 2 week. 60 patients suffering from Tinea versicolor completed the study. 29 patients were treated with Artemisia sieberi lotion and 31 pat...

Climate variability, which is expected to increase in the future, can promote coexistence through a mechanism called the storage effect. Currently, we have little understanding of how the importance of the storage effect varies among ecosystems. We tested for the three conditions of the storage effect in a sagebrush steppe plant community in Idaho (USA) by combining long-term observational data...

In water-limited regions, rainfall interception is influenced by rainfall properties and crown characteristics. Rainfall properties, aside from gross rainfall amount and duration (GR and RD), maximum rainfall intensity and rainless gap (RG), within rain events may heavily affect throughfall and interception by plants. From 2004 to 2014 (except for 2007), individual shrubs of Caragana korshinski...

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objectives: medicinal plants played an important role in human health. the kidney is a major organ for elimination the additional materials of body. some of metabolic waste products are excreted through the kidneys, give us useful information about kidney health. therefore, the aim of this research was to study the effects of a. deserti flowering tips extract on kidney. materials and methods: t...