August 2012

Overview of commonly used Chinese herbs

There are several Chinese herbs used as food supplement or as an alternative medicine.Fructus lycii, Panax ginseng, Cervi cornu pantotrichum, Herba epimedii and Angelica sinensis are among the most commonly prescribed. All of them have been claimed for various indications which are mainly due to their variety of active ingredients or chemical compositions. Even though Chinese herbs have...

Author(s): Pornanong Aramwit and Suntchai Wirotsaengthong

August 2012

Essential oil content and composition of Mentha longifolia (L.) Hudson grown wild in Iran

Essential oil content and composition of Mentha longifolia (L.) Huds. collected from five regions in south-west of Iran were determined. The essential oil isolated by hydro-distillation for 3 h using a Clevenjer-type apparatus and the oil was analyzed by GC and GC-MS. Essential oil content was varying from 1.39 to 4.05%. From 23 identified compounds, the major compounds were; Piperitenone oxide (7.41 to...

Author(s): Zarir Saeidi, Hadi babaahmadi, Keramat Allah Saeidi, Amin Salehi, Ramin Saleh Jouneghani, Hosain Amirshekari and Abdallah Taghipour

August 2012

Quantification of α-, β- and γ-mangostin in Garcinia mangostana fruit rind extracts by a reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography

Garcinia mangostana fruit rinds contain high concentration of xanthones such as α-, and γ-mangostin. The α-mangostin-rich extracts have been used widely in nutritional supplements, herbal cosmetics and pharmaceutical preparations. This study aims to develop a reverse phase HPLC method for the quantification of α-, β- and γ-mangostin in G. mangostana fruit rind extracts. The...

Author(s): Abdalrahim F. A. Aisha, Khalid M. Abu-Salah, Mohammad J. Siddiqui, Zhari Ismailand Amin Malik Shah Abdul Majid

August 2012

Genetic identification and relationship analysis of medicinal Limonium by rDNA ITS sequence, single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and amplification refractory mutation system (ARMS)

The quality of crude drug is important for ensuring consumers safety and efficacy.Limonium sinense (Girard) Kuntze has been used in traditional medicine in China for several thousand years. But identifying L. sinense and the adulterants based only on its morphological and chemical appearance is generally difficult. In order to establish an effective method, single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) of rDNA ITS...

Author(s): Ge Ding, Daizhen Zhang, Yanqiu Yu, Beibei Zhang and Lingling Zhao

August 2012

Ethnomedicinal uses of plant resources in Gilgit-Baltistan of Pakistan

A survey was conducted to collect information regarding medicinal and traditional uses of the plant resources from northern areas of Pakistan. Plant species were collected from Gahkuch area, District Ghizer, Gilgit-Baltistan province, Pakistan. A total of 35 plant species belonging to 27 families were found to be commonly used for various medicinal purposes. Among these, 10, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1 and 1 species belonged to...

Author(s): Arshad Ali Shedayi and Bibi Gulshan

August 2012

Efficacy of chloroform, ethanol and water extracts of medicinal plants, Malva sylvestris and Malva neglecta on some bacterial and fungal contaminants of wound infections

In this study, the efficacy of chloroform, ethanol and water extracts of Malva neglecta andMalva sylvestris on some bacterial and fungal contaminants of wound infections were investigated. The results showed an acceptable efficacy of chloroform, water and ethanol extracts of these medicinal plants (M. neglecta and M. sylvestris) on some bacterial and fungal contaminants of wound infections....

Author(s): Payman Zare, Razzagh Mahmoudi, Sina Shadfar, Ali Ehsani, Yasaman Afrazeh, Anoosha Saeedan, Farzad Niyazpour, and Babak Seyed Pourmand