Aims: To determine and compare the antioxidant activity of water and ethanol extract of 25 kinds of traditional chinese medicinal plants. Results: The ethanol extract of 4 kinds of medicinal herbs had the strongest scavenging activity. They were Magnolia officinalis, Rheum offici...
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Research Article10.9734/ejmp/2019/v28i230129
Aim: The effect of storage containers on the microbial load of domestic water from three sources treated with Moringa oleifera and Citrullus lanatus seed powders in Lekwesi, Abia State was assessed. Study Design: The jar test method was used for the treatments. One gram (1.0g) ea...
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Research Article10.9734/ejmp/2019/v28i230130
Cervical cancer is most familiar neoplasm among women worldwide. Surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy are common treatments, however high stage tumors have frequently poor prognosis. HPV 16 and 18 are major etiological factors for cervical cancer. Likewise, epigenetics is the...
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Research Article10.9734/ejmp/2019/v28i230128
Aims: We previously demonstrated that a blend of herbal extracts (Weighlevel®; a mixture of extracts from the leaves of Alchemilla vulgaris, Olea europaea, Mentha longifolia and from the seeds of Cuminum cyminum) taken 3 times per day produces weight loss in preclinical and clini...
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Research Article10.9734/ejmp/2019/v28i130127
Aims: To establish the most suitable extraction method for sweet lupine seeds and to determine minerals, phenolic content, flavonoids, antioxidant activity and antimicrobial activities. Study Design: Known and standard experimental procedures are employed. Place and Duration of S...
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Research Article10.9734/ejmp/2019/v28i130126
Aims: A. precatorius seed powder is traditionally used in Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani medicine. The objective of present work is to describe the oil, starch, protein, polyphenol and mineral composition of A. precatorius seeds. Methodology: Legumes from A. precatorius were collecte...
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Research Article10.9734/ejmp/2019/v28i130125
Chemical analysis were carried out to investigate the bioactive constituents of Vernonia amygdalina and Jatropha gossypifolia and to determine the quality of saponin, alkaloid, and tannin contents of the selected plants. In comparing the bioactive constituents of Vernonia amygdal...
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Research Article10.9734/ejmp/2019/v28i130124
Aims: Caesalpinioideae species have great medicinal and food values. In this work, six Caesalpinioideae species that grow abundantly in central India were selected for chemical investigation: Delonix regia, Entada gigas, Leucaena leucocephala, Mimosa pudica, Parkia javanica and S...
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Research Article10.9734/ejmp/2019/v28i130123
Suryakant Chakradhari, Manas Kanti Deb, Khageshwar Singh Patel, Jesús Martín-Gil, Erick K. Towett & Pablo Martín-Ramos·European Journal of Medicinal Plants·2019
Aims: To study the spectral and thermal characteristics, and the oil, starch, polyphenol and mineral contents of seeds and leaves from three Sapotaceae species, provided that trees and shrubs of this family are an important source of nutritional and functional products. Methodolo...
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Research Article10.9734/ejmp/2019/v27i430122
Objective: Nauclea latifolia (Rubiaceae) stem-bark enjoys wide patronage in ethnomedicine due to multiplicity of usage. Acute and subacute hematological and biochemical toxicity studies are available in literature but none underpins its ameliorative effect with a histone deacetyl...
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Research Article10.9734/ejmp/2019/v27i430121
Suryakant Chakradhari, Keshaw P. Rajhans, Khageshwar S. Patel, Erick K. Towett, Jesús Martín-Gil & Pablo Martín-Ramos·European Journal of Medicinal Plants·2019
Aims: Terminalia spp. is medicinal plants that belong to Combretaceae family, widely used in traditional Ayurvedic medicine. In this work, the nutritional constituents of the leaves, seed kernel and seed coat from four Terminalia species (T. arjuna, T. bellirica, T. catappa and T...
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Research Article10.9734/ejmp/2019/v27i430120
Aims: The aim of the study was to determine the in vivo anti-malarial activity of stem and root extracts of E. abyssinica using the 4-day suppressive in vivo anti-malarial test. Methodology: Female mice weighing approximately 20±2 g were intra-peritoneally injected with mice pass...
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Research Article10.9734/ejmp/2019/v27i430119
Galina V. Sukoyan, Nikoloz V. Gongadze, Natalya B. Demina, Veronika V. Golovach, Edisher T. Tsivtsivadze & Alesha D. Bakuridze·European Journal of Medicinal Plants·2019
Skin aging is multitarget persistence processing that immediately involve hyperproduction of free radicals under influence of intrinsic and extrinsic factors and deterioration in intimal antioxidant defense system. The goal of the study was the evaluation of the anti-oxidant pote...
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Research Article10.9734/ejmp/2019/v27i430118
Mohamed Bonewendé Belemlilga, Tata Kady Traoré, Gilchrist A. L. Boly, Noufou Ouedraogo, Aristide Traoré, Marius Lompo, Sylvin Ouédraogo & Innocent Pierre Guissou·European Journal of Medicinal Plants·2019
Aims: To evaluate antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and analgesic activities of extracts of Saba senegalensis leaves. Study Design: In vitro antioxidant assay and in vivo anti-inflammatory, analgesic assay of Saba senegalensis extracts. Place and Duration of Study: Saba senegalensis...
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Research Article10.9734/ejmp/2019/v27i330116
Malaria is a public health problem and continues to be a major cause of morbidity and mortality in most tropical and subtropical countries. A rapid spread of malarial disease globally due to treatment failure has led to an urgent need for new effective antimalarials which medicin...
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Research Article10.9734/ejmp/2019/v27i330117