Background: The safety and the therapeutic efficacy of plants medications are mainly dependent on the quality controls and standards by which they are made for, to give powerful actions when prescribing them. Medicinal plants and their extracts have been used as sources of medicine, cosmetics and food in virtually all nations and cultures and the usage of plants as a source of cosmetics and med...

Amaç: Bu çal›flmada, streptozin ile diyabet gelifltirilen s›çanlarda, Urtica dioica yapraklar›n›n hidroalkol ekstrakt›n›n, karaci¤erde gözlenen kantitatif morfometrik de¤ifliklikler üzerine olan koruyucu etkisinin araflt›r›lmas› amaçlanm›flt›r. Yöntem: Otuz adet erkek Wistar cinsi s›çan kontrol (G1), diyabetik (G2) ve diyabetik+Urtica dioica (G3) olmak üzere 3 gruba ayr›ld›lar. Kontrol grubuna ...

BACKGROUND Increase in the emergence of drug -resistant pathogens led to the development of natural antimicrobials. In this study the antimicrobial effect of methanolic extracts of Sambucus ebulus and Urtica dioica on 16 skin and wound infections isolates of methicillin resistant S. aureus have been studied. MATERIAL AND METHODS Solvent extraction procedure was done using soxhlet apparatus fo...

Urtica dioica has been known as a plant that decreases blood glucose. Despite the importance of this plant in herbal medicine, relatively little research has been down on effects of this plant on islets yet. The objective of the current study was to evaluate the effect of dried Urtica dioica leaf alcoholic and aqueous extracts on the number and the diameter of the islets and histological parame...

Antioxidant activity of hydromethanolic extract of Urtica parviflora Roxb. (family Urticaceae) was investigated by different in vitro methods, namely, nitric oxide scavenging, DPPH scavenging, and reducing power assay. In the present study, plant extract exhibited dose dependent free radical scavenging and reducing activity. The antioxidant activity of the hydromethanolic extract of Urtica parv...

Purpose: To determine the effects of therapy with Urticadioica for symptomatic relief of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS)secondary to benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH).Material and Methods: A 6-month, double-blind, placebo-controlled,randomized, partial crossover, comparative trial of Urtica dioica withplacebo in 620 patients was conducted. Patients were evaluated using<...

Although stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) has been shown to reduce HM (heavy metal) content in soil, its wider phytoremediation potential has been neglected. Urtica dioica was cultivated in soils contaminated with HMs or polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). After four months, up to 33% of the less chlorinated biphenyls and 8% of HMs (Zn, Pb, Cd) had been removed. Bacteria were isolated from the pla...

Background: This study was designed to investigate the effects of Urtica dioica on liver ischemia reperfusion injury in rats. Methods: Thirty male Wistar-albino rats were used in this experimental study. Animals were divided into three groups as sham operated (group 1), control (group 2), and Urtica dioica treatment group (group 3). Urtica dioica 2ml/kg were administered intraperitoneally befor...