Objectives: Although breast milk is considered the best nutritional option for neonates, use of traditional supplements such as sugar water, camel thorn, and flix weed in the first week of life of infants is quite common in Iran and many other countries. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether consuming such supplements has any impact on infant’s breastfeeding behavior. Materials and Meth...

it is highly desirable to employ biopreservatives of the antioxidant and antimicrobial properties to avoid the side effects associated with the use of synthetic preservatives. cake batters containing essential oil extracts of some such iranian native herbs as: lemon balm (melissa officinalis), camel thorn (alhagi maurorum) and ajwain (trachyspermum copticum), were prepared. the chemical composi...

Fig. 1 Gonometa postica: Moth, opened and entire cocoon. from rumen impaction in the North-Western Cape. Similar losses, reported by Edwards I from the Northern Transvaal in 1935, were caused by cocoons of the moth Gonometa rufubrennea. A related moth of the same genus, Gonometa postica (Walker) (fig. 1) occurs in the North-Western Cape, namely north of an imaginary line drawn from Mafeking to ...

objectives: although breast milk is considered the best nutritional option for neonates, use of traditional supplements such as sugar water, camel thorn, and flix weed in the first week of life of infants is quite common in iran and many other countries. the aim of this study was to evaluate whether consuming such supplements has any impact on infant’s breastfeeding behavior. materials and meth...

OBJECTIVE Although breast milk is considered the best nutritional option for neonates, use of traditional supplements such as sugar water, camel thorn, and flix weed in the first week of life of infants is quite common in Iran and many other countries. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether consuming such supplements has any impact on infant's breastfeeding behavior. MATERIALS AND METH...

conclusions the present investigation supports the use of the methanolic extract of a. maurorum as an antiviral drug in folk and modern medicine. this activity may justify its use as a source of natural compounds to control fmdv in infected animals. background foot and mouth disease (fmd) is an infectious disease of cloven-hoofed animals that has adverse economic impacts. given the prevalence o...

abstract this study was mainly conducted due to importance of plant manna and their production process regarding pharmaceutical use. therefore, the behaviourial characteristics of spittlebug poophilus nebulosus leth on alhagi persarum boiss & buhse camel thron plant in torbate jam region, khorasan razavi state were assessed during 2006 and 2007. the bug’s discharge after feeding on the camel th...

Under experimental conditions, the effect of plant proanthocyanidin – yantacin isolated from a camel thorn (Alhagi pseudalhagi) Yantacin, when administered orally at dose 100 mg / kg, on possible changes in early stages liver fibrosis that occurred against background chronic heliotrine hepatitis was studied. The studies were conducted male rats with body weight ±10 g. general and biochemical pa...

Alhagi pseudalhagi known as Yavasaka in Ayurveda and Camel thorn in English is a small thorny shrub, normally used in folk medicine as a remedy for rheumatic pains, bilharziasis and various types of gastrointestinal discomforts, urinary tract diseases and liver diseases. It is an important ingredient of many Ayurvedic formulations. As the plant is therapeutically very important, it will be wort...