BACKGROUND Ethnomedicine is gaining admiration since years but still there is abundant medicinal flora which is unrevealed through research. The study was conducted to assess the in vitro antimicrobial potential and also determine the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of Citrus sinensis peel extracts with a view of searching a novel extract as a remedy for dental caries pathogens. MATERI...

This work documents the zootherapeutic practices in Ethnoveterinary medicine (EVM) of Pedra Lavrada (6°45'S, 36°28'W), Northeastern Brazil. We interviewed 23 people (22 men and 1 woman), who provided information on animal species used as remedies, body parts used to prepare the remedies, and illnesses for which the remedies were prescribed. We calculated the use-value to determine the most impo...

Carica papaya L. leaves have been used in ethnomedicine for the treatment of fevers and cancers. Despite its benefits, very few studies on their potential toxicity have been described. The aim of the present study was to characterize the chemical composition of the leaf extract from 'Sekaki' C. papaya cultivar by UPLC-TripleTOF-ESI-MS and to investigate the sub-acute oral toxicity in Sprague Da...

Understanding the natural resources of native flora in a particular area is essential to be able identify, record, and update existing records concerning that area, especially medicinal plants. Until recently, there has been very little scientific documentation on biological diversity Aljumum flora. The current study aimed document plants among this region determine traditional usages are docum...

BACKGROUND Zootherapy is important in various socio-cultural environments, and innumerous examples of the use of animal derived remedies can currently be found in many urban, semi-urban and more remote localities in all parts of the world, particularly in developing countries. However, although a number of ethnobiological inventories concerning the use of medicinal animals in human health care ...

Plants are a vital and life-sustaining natural resource as they provide many ecosystem services supply food, fibre, fuel, medicine, etc. They distributed heterogeneously in different ecosystems. With the increasing urbanization all parts of world, vegetation overlapped with urban localities like parks, gardens, roadsides, wasteland other human habitations. Among this vegetation, them used ethno...

BACKGROUND Leading scholars in ethnobiology and ethnomedicine continuously stress the need for moving beyond the bare description of local knowledge and to additionally analyse and theorise about the characteristics and dynamics of human interactions with plants and related local knowledge. Analyses of the variation of local knowledge are thereby perceived as minimal standard. In this study we ...

Abstract Background Medicinal plants are the fundamental unit of traditional medicine system in Nepal. Nepalese people rich especially folk (ethnomedicine), and this is gaining much attention after 1995. The use medicinal has increased during COVID-19 pandemic as a private behavior (not under control government). A lot misinterpretations to treat or prevent have been spreading throughout Nepal ...