Ethnopharmacological relevanceViticis Fructus (called Manjingzi in China) is the dried ripe fruits of plant species Vitex trifolia subsp. litoralis Steenis and L. family Lamiaceae. Viticis has been used as a traditional Chinese medicine for thousands years to treat illness such colds, headache, vertigo, anesthesia, hyperkinesias. More chemical constituents medicinal effects have discovered with...

Tribulus terrestris L. (TT) is an annual plant of the family Zygophyllaceae that has been used for generations to energize, vitalize, and improve sexual function and physical performance in men. The fruits and roots of TT have been used as a folk medicine for thousands of years in China, India, Sudan, and Pakistan. Numerous bioactive phytochemicals, such as saponins and flavonoids, have been is...

Contents 1. Introduction 2. Animal self-medication and ethnomedicine 3. The impact of parasites on the evolution of self-medicative behavior 4. Food as medicine in animals and humans 5. Use of plants as medicine by chimpanzees in the wild 5.1. Whole leaf swallowing and the physical expulsion of parasite 5.2. Vernonia amygdalina and bitter pith chewing behavior 5.3. The ethnomedicine and phytoch...

1Institute of Health Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (SIBS), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine (SJTU-SM), Shanghai, China; 2Department of Pathophysiology, Chemical Biology Division of Shanghai Universities E-Institutes, Key Laboratory of Cell Differentiation and Apoptosis of Chinese Ministry of Education, Shanghai Jiao T...

Gametophore-over-producing mutants of the moss, Physcomitrella patens, when grown in liquid culture export high levels of cytokinin into their culture medium. The cytokinin produced by these mutants is postulated to account for their peculiar phenotype, that of mosses treated with exogenous cytokinin. N(6)-(Delta(2)-isopentenyl)adenine, the major cytokinin, has been identified previously in two...

Hovenia dulcis Thunb., known as Japanese raisin tree, is commonly found in East Asia. It has a long history as a food supplement and traditional medicine in Japan, China and Korea, but is little known and used in Western countries so far. This minireview summarizes traditional uses and current knowledge on the pharmacology and phytochemistry of H. duclcis and covers, in particular, literature f...

H M N J Herath1, A W M Wazil1, N V I Ratnatunga2, A S Badurdeen1, K G A D Weerakoon3 1Nephrology and Transplant Unit, Teaching Hospital, Kandy, 2Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, and 3Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka. Correspondence: HMNJH, e-mail: . Recei...

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GUILLERMO BLANCO,* LUIS M. BAUTISTA, D AMASO HORNERO-M ENDEZ, SERGIO A. LAMBERTUCCI, GUILLERMO WIEMEYER, JOS E A. SANCHEZ-ZAPATA, FERNANDO HIRALDO & JOS E A. DON AZAR Department of Evolutionary Ecology, National Museum of Natural History (CSIC), Madrid, Spain Food Phytochemistry Department, Instituto de la Grasa (CSIC), Seville, Spain Laboratorio Ecotono-INIBIOMA (CONICET-Universidad Nacional d...

Inventories of tropical forests have listed Annonaceae as one of the most diverse plant families. For centuries, it is employed in traditional medicines to cure various pathological conditions including snakebite, analgesic, astringent, diarrhea, dysentery, arthritis pain, rheumatism, neuralgia, and weight loss etc. Phytochemical analysis of Annonaceae family have reported the occurrence of alk...