Suleiman, Waleed Bakry
Published in
Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials
BackgroundAlong with swift economic evolution and continuous amelioration of lifestyle, people at present are paying more attention to health issues. Synthetic drugs will be compensated with other natural ones that belong to natural origin. Plants have always been considered as sources of several compounds that are used in many fields, especially h...
Holandino, Carla Melo, Michelle Nonato de Oliveira Oliveira, Adriana Passos Batista, João Vitor da Costa Capella, Marcia Alves Marques Garrett, Rafael Grazi, Mirio Ramm, Hartmut Torre, Claudia Dalla Schaller, Gerhard
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Published in
BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
BackgroundViscum album L. (Santalaceae), commonly known as mistletoe, is a hemiparasitic plant traditionally used in complementary cancer treatment. Its antitumor potential is mostly attributed to the presence of aqueous soluble metabolites; however, the use of ethanol as solvent also permits the extraction of pharmacological compounds with antitum...
Zhang, Bo-Dou Cheng, Jia-Xin Zhang, Chao-Feng Bai, Yi-Dan Liu, Wen-Yuan Li, Wei Koike, Kazuo Akihisa, Toshihiro Feng, Feng Zhang, Jie
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Journal of ethnopharmacology
Sauropus androgynus L. Merr is an underexploited perennial shrub traditionally used as a medicinal plant in South Asia and Southeast Asia. The plant is regarded as not just a green vegetable for diet but a traditional herb for certain aliments. For instance, it has traditionally been used to relieve fever, to treat ulcers and diabetes, to promote l...
Moshiashvili, Giorgi Tabatadze, Nino Mshvildadze, Vakhtang
Published in
Fitoterapia
The genus Daphne belongs to the Thymeleaceae family and contains over 90 species that are distributed in Asia, Europe and parts of North Africa. The species of the genus Daphne are used in the traditional medicine of China, Tibet, Korea, and the Middle East for the treatment of various conditions. A broad range of studies has shown the significant ...
Peruzzi, Lorenzo Roma-Marzio, Francesco Flamini, Guido
Published in
Planta
Main conclusionVolatile emissions were detected for the first time in male flowers of the early-branching angiosperm Amborella trichopoda, suggesting a defensive and attractive double role of these compounds.AbstractFlower volatile emissions were detected for the first time in male flowers of the early-branching angiosperm Amborella trichopoda. A m...
Nyayiru Kannaian, Udaya Prakash Edwin, Jasmine Brighty Rajagopal, Vidhya Nannu Shankar, Sripriya Srinivasan, Bhuvaneswari
Published in
Heliyon
Coconut; Cotyledon; Cold percolation; Cardiac glycosides; Antioxidant; Biochemical composition of food; Plant products; Phytochemistry; Bioactive plant product; Secondary metabolite; Food science
Figueiredo, Fabiana de Freitas Cechinel Filho, Valdir Damazo, Amilcar Sabino Arunachalam, Karuppusamy Colodel, Edson Moleta Ribeiro, Marlon Venturini, Claudio Luis Oliveira, Darley Maria Machado, Marco Tulio Marra Pavan, Eduarda
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Journal of ethnopharmacology
Sorocea guilleminina Gaudich. is a tree or shrub endemic to Brazil. Its leaves are used in Brazilian folk medicine for the healing of wounds, stomach problems, inflammation and as diuretic. The present study evaluates the activity and action mechanisms of the healing properties of the aqueous extract of S. guilleminiana leaves (AESg), in experiment...
Macedo, Tiago Ribeiro, Vera Oliveira, Andreia P Pereira, David M Fernandes, Fátima Gomes, Nelson G M Araújo, Luísa Valentão, Patrícia Andrade, Paula B
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Journal of ethnopharmacology
Ethnopharmacological surveys on Guinea-Bissauan flora reveal that several species are used to treat or ameliorate the symptomatology of conditions with an inflammatory background. As such, extracts obtained from a series of plants recorded in those surveys were screened for their anti-inflammatory properties, a hydroethanolic extract obtained from ...
Idm’hand, Elhassan Msanda, Fouad Cherifi, Khalil
Published in
Clinical Phytoscience
This review summarizes selected scientific evidence on phytochemistry and pharmacological properties of Ammodaucus leucotrichus. Information was gathered via the Internet (using Scopus, PubMed, Google Scholar, Elsevier, Springer, Science Direct, Researchgate and Web of Science) as well as from libraries and local books. Ammodaucus leucotrichus (A. ...
Yadav, Vaishali Krishnan, Anuja Vohora, Divya
Published in
Journal of ethnopharmacology
Piper longum, commonly referred as 'Pippali', has found its traditional use in India, Malaysia, Singapore and other South Asian countries as an analgesic, carminative, anti-diarrhoeic, immunostimulant, post childbirth to check postpartum hemorrhage and to treat asthma, insomnia, dementia, epilepsy, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, spleen dis...
