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Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2018, Issue 1, 2018., 2018 For neurological disorders, pharmacological tests have shown promising results in the reduction of side effects when using plants with known therapeutic effects in the treatment of some types of dementia. Therefore, the goals of this study are to gather data about the major medicinal plants used in the nervous system as described in ...
Giovanna Felipe Cavalcante e Costa +4 more
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Building an inclusive botany: The “radicle” dream
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 6, Issue 3, Page 544-557, May 2024.It is important to recognize how our current understanding of plants has been shaped by diverse cultural contexts, as this underscores the importance of valuing and incorporating contributions from all knowledge systems in scientific pursuits. This approach emphasizes the ongoing bias, including within scientific practices, and the necessity of ...
Makenzie E. Mabry +9 more
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Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2017, Issue 1, 2017., 2017 Snakebites are a serious problem in public health due to their high morbimortality. Most of snake venoms produce intense local tissue damage, which could lead to temporary or permanent disability in victims. The available specific treatment is the antivenom serum therapy, whose effectiveness is reduced against these effects.
Juliana Félix-Silva +4 more
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Journal of Chemistry, Volume 2017, Issue 1, 2017., 2017 The measure of O2 consumption during the inhibited autoxidation of an easily oxidizable substrate is one of the most reliable and predictive methods to assess antioxidant activity, especially for structure‐activity relationship studies, for food and industrial applications. The differential oxygen uptake apparatus described herein represents a powerful
Riccardo Amorati +3 more
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Southeast Asian Medicinal Plants as a Potential Source of Antituberculosis Agent
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2017, Issue 1, 2017., 2017 Despite all of the control strategies, tuberculosis (TB) is still a major cause of death globally and one‐third of the world’s population is infected with TB. The drugs used for TB treatment have drawbacks of causing adverse side effects and emergence of resistance strains.
Shuaibu Babaji Sanusi +5 more
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Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2017, Issue 1, 2017., 2017 Antitick plants and related ethnoknowledge/ethnopractices with potential for integrated tick control and management strategies to improve livestock production are reviewed. About 231 plants reviewed showed a variety of bioactive properties, namely, being toxic, repellent, antifeedant, and antiovipositant and ability to immobilize target tick species ...
Wycliffe Wanzala, José L. Rios
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Gaceta Médica Boliviana, 2020 Objetivos: el objetivo del presente estudio fue analizar las características socioculturales, el uso y conocimiento de plantas medicinales en las comunidades indígenas yuracares de San Benito, San Juan y San Andita.
Andrés Peredo Lazarte +1 more
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The effectiveness of tipi in the treatment of hip and knee osteoarthritis: a preliminary report
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1991 Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common painful inflammatory condition occurring mainly in the later half of life. Hipe and knee are the joints mostly affected. Petiveria alliacea (tipi) popularly known as an anti-rheumatic medicine, has been used by OA patients
Marcos Bosi Ferraz +3 more
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Tropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems, 2023 Antecedentes. Las garrapatas y los nematodos gastrointestinales (NGI) afectan negativamente en la salud, bienestar y producción de los animales domésticos.
G.J. Flota-Biurgos +4 more
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Antiamoebic Activity of Petiveria alliacea Leaves and Their Main Component, Isoarborinol
Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2017 Petiveria alliacea L. (Phytolacaceae) is a medicinal plant with a broad range of traditional therapeutic properties, including the treatment of dysentery and intestinal infections caused by protozoan parasites. However, its effects against Entamoeba histolytica have not been reported yet.
Lizeth M, Zavala-Ocampo +5 more
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