in the "index of botanical names", where the medieval Latin designations take you to the main dictionary, for example to the items satirion and testiculus leporis, under which the Middle English names are listed, in the case of satirion indiscriminately with other possible identifications, such as Arum and Endymion. Admittedly, the difficulties of identification are considerable-one reason bein...

Plants are one of the most important resources of human foods and medicines. Rapidly increasing knowledge on nutrition, medicine, and plant biotechnology has dramatically changed the concepts about food, health and agriculture, and brought in a revolution on them. Nutritional therapy and phytotherapy have emerged as new concepts and healing systems have quickly and widely spread in recent years...

OBJECTIVES To determine the extent to which college students are intermixing mood-altering herbs with prescription medications and whether they are disclosing this information to their health care providers. DESIGN AND SETTING A nonrandom sample was drawn from the student body of a Northwestern state university (n=305). METHODS In November 2008 participants completed an online survey detail...

Banxia Xiexin decoction, a traditional herbal mixture, has been widely used for chronic atrophic gastritis in clinical practice China. However, research on the bioactive components and underlying mechanisms of decoction is still scarce. Components corresponding targets were collected from Chinese medicine systems pharmacology database analysis platform. The chemical structures each component ob...

The types of pharmaceutical products include cosmetics and drugs. Some the comprise a mix drugs herbs without considering their interaction effects. Drug-herb interactions (DHIs) refer to between conventional herb medicines. However, available information on DHIs are scattered because it has heterogeneous databases website resources, apart from some paid or subscribed databases. Easy access wou...

Daruharidra (Berberis aristata DC) has been used in ayurveda and traditional Chinese medicine for more than 3000 years. It is a red-listed endemic medicinal plant species of conservation concern and has become very important in recent years due to its rarity and huge demand in the medicinal plant sector. However, many other species such as Berberis asiatica Roxb., Berberis lycium Royle., Cosini...

Natural products have been used for medical applications since ancient times. Commonly, natural products are structurally complex chemical compounds that efficiently interact with their biological targets, making them useful drug candidates in cancer therapy. Here, we used cell-based phenotypic profiling and image-based high-content screening to study the mode of action and potential cellular t...

The present work deals with the formulation and development of oral herbal liquid dosage its comparative study marketed for quality evaluation parameters. We have used different Poly-herbs syrup because they expressed high effectiveness in a vast number diseases. As aforementioned therapeutic effect medicines is exerted due to presence constituents effects are further potentiated when compatibl...