Aims: To explore the use of Borassus aethiopum fruit as composite flour and bread and determine the phytochemical composition in each product. Place and Duration: Department of Biochemistry, and Department of Food science food and sensory evaluation laboratory, between September,...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2018/40502
This particular study is focused to the employment of herbal medicine due to the economical stringency of rural-based communities’ resort of traditional medicine such as using Moringa oleifera, Solanum nigrum and Cleome gynandra as alternative drug sources to treat microbial infe...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2018/40226
Aims: To determine the effect of oral administration of Vernonia amygdalina ethanolic leaves extracts on blood glucose concentration of alloxan-induced hyperglycemic albino rats and the effect of the extract on the mating behavior of male albino rats. Study Design and Methodology...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2018/40702
Biodiversity plays vital roles in maintaining human and animal health. A wide variety of plants, animals, and fungi are used as medicine, essential vitamins, painkillers. Natural products have been recognized and used as medicines by ancient cultures all around the world. About 1...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2018/40227
Plant-based traditional medicine system continues to play a vital role in the healthcare system with about 80% of the world’s inhabitants relying mainly on traditional medicines for their primary health care. Modern knowledge on medicinal plant research till contains at least 25%...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2018/40697
Jean Chepng’etich, Chripus Ngule, Mercy Jepkorir, Regina Mwangangi, Douglas Kahura Njuguna, Jecinta Wanjiru Ndung’u, Daniel Kiboi & Peter Mwitari·European Journal of Medicinal Plants·2018
Tragia brevipes and Tetradenia riparia have been widely used in traditional medicine. T. brevipes relief stomach pain and in treatment of rheumatism while T. riparia; heal chest pains, stomach-ache, malaria and act as antioxidant. However, scanty data exist on their potential ant...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2018/40058
Mushrooms are recognized as nutritionally functional food and a source of physiologically beneficial and nontoxic medicines. Oyster mushroom (Pleurotus spp.) is an efficient lignin degrading mushroom and can grow well on different types of lignocellulosic materials including agri...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2018/40411
Alternaria leaf blight caused by Alternaria brassicae and Alternaria brassicola, is one of the most destructive diseases of mustard (Brassica campestris, B. juncea and B.napus) in West Bengal, causing considerable damages to the crop. The experiment was conducted under in vitro...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2018/40412
Aims: This study was aimed to use Coffea arabica, Salvia rhytidea and Bonium persicum extracts against Leishmania major and L. tropica promastigotes to compare various concentrations of these plant extracts. In addition, their cytotoxicity and antioxidant activities were also eva...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2018/39364
Aim: To explore and collect data about ethno-botanical and ethno-medicinal uses of wild leguminous plants, growing in three tehsils of district Rajouri. Study Design: Data about the various wild leguminous plants growing in the study area was gathered from the local people with t...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2018/39262
Aim: Citrus fruits are well known for its medicinal and food value. Aim of this study is to investigate acetylcholinesterase ((AChE)) inhibitory activity, butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE) inhibitory activity, total phenolics, flavonoids, flavonols content and thrombolytic activities...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2018/39693
Benjamin Tangue Talom, Siméon Pierre Chegaing Fodouop, Michel Tagne Fokam, Gring Zigla, Jules-Roger Kuiate & Léopold Ngoune Tatsadjieu·European Journal of Medicinal Plants·2018
Background: In Cameroon, most peoples use traditional medicine treating infectious diseases. To verify the scientific bases of these locally used medicinal plants, an ethnobotanical survey was carried out in some villages of Vina and Mayo-Louti Divisions. Materials and Methods: I...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2018/39780
The proximate composition and time killing kinetics of the leaf and stem extracts of Calotropis procera were carried out. The proximate composition showed moisture content of (10.45 and 9.78%), protein (16.20 and 8.15%), fat (1.99 and 0.96%), ash (14.32 and 6.39%), crude fibre (6...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2018/34080
Extract of Nauclea latifolia (NL) root bark collected from the Nigerian flora was examined for anti-RSV activity. Preliminary data showed anti-RSV activities with IC50 =75.62 µg/ml when tested against the recombinant strain rgRSV expressing the green fluorescent protein. Correspo...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2018/39383
The natural products derived from medicinal plants are proven to be the abundant source of biologically active compounds, which have been the basis of development of new pharmaceuticals. The present study was carried out to understand the antibacterial activity of methanolic extr...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2018/38980