Background: Extracts from that Napoleonae imperialis leaves have traditionally been used to treat wounds and diarrhoea in south east Nigeria. Aim: The present study was carried out to evaluate following scientific principles, the phytochemical composition and anti-motility effect...
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Research Article10.9734/jocamr/2023/v22i3458
Ifeanyi Anthony Egwuatu, Emeka Godson Anyanwu, Augustine Oviosun, Abraham John Chukwuebuka, Chiadikobi Lawrence Ozoemena, Ekene Valentine Ugbor & Maduadichie Arinze Godswill·Journal of Complementary and Alternative Medical Research·2023
Concern is increasing regarding the effect of chemotherapy induced cognitive impairment on oncology patients. This sought to investigate the effect of 5-7, dihydroxyflavone on the hippocampus of wistar rats with Doxorubicin induced cognitive impairment. 30 male Wistar rats were p...
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Research Article10.9734/jocamr/2023/v22i2456
For the growing number of patients suffering from post-COVID-19 syndrome, there is little definitive guidance for treatment protocols or prognosis. Neurologic manifestations following acute COVID-19 infection are continually surfacing in the literature, with fatigue being the mos...
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Research Article10.9734/jocamr/2023/v22i3457
Background and Aim: Presently, medical students form a vital group of aspiring health professionals that are trained in order to assist in promoting healthcare worldwide. However, there is need to understand how these students derive motivation based on various determinants that...
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Research Article10.9734/jocamr/2023/v22i2454
Bioactive constituents are the active ingredients of herbal product such as Dryopteris dilataa that possess therapeutic efficacies in the treatment and management of several diseases. Thus, we evaluated different concentration of the free radical scavenging activity and phytochem...
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Research Article10.9734/jocamr/2023/v22i2455
Clean and healthy living behavior is essentially the basis for preventing humans from various diseases. Health is everyone's dream and need. The principle of clean and healthy living behavior (PHBS) is one of the cornerstones and health development programs in Indonesia. The purp...
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Research Article10.9734/jocamr/2023/v22i2453
One of the intervention programs to improve the nutrition of pregnant women is supplementary feeding (PMT). The nutritional problem of pregnant women that is often found in the community is the lack of intake of macronutrients and micronutrients. The method used in this study was...
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Research Article10.9734/jocamr/2023/v22i1450
The increasing trend of health care costs has prompted the government to seek financing alternatives that can streamline funds without reducing the quality of services. One such system is the implementation of the commitment-based capitation consequence where the puskesmas is pai...
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Research Article10.9734/jocamr/2023/v22i1451
Community empowerment is very important to do with the aim that people become independent, in the sense that they have the potential to be able to solve the problems they face, and are able to meet their needs by not depending their lives on outside assistance, both government an...
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Research Article10.9734/jocamr/2023/v22i2452
Transgenders have always caught my attention. Be it at the signal where they are seen begging or in a moving bus where everyone shuns away from sitting near them. My initial fears about them turned to curiosity as to who they are. Are they normal? No one around me was able to giv...
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Research Article10.9734/jocamr/2023/v22i1448
Background: Computed tomography urography (CTU) is the current radiological imaging modality for the evaluation of the kidneys, ureters and urinary bladder pathologies. CTU has largely replaced intravenous urography in centers that has computed tomogram machines. Objectives: The...
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Research Article10.9734/jocamr/2023/v22i1449
Heliotropium indicum (Indian heliotrope) belongs to family Boraginaceae, which has wide ethnopharmacological applications such as antiulcer, antirheumatism and anti-cholera. The aim of this study was to characterize the phytochemicals in H. indicum ethanolic leaves extract using...
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Research Article10.9734/jocamr/2023/v22i1447
Introduction: The Increase in cancer deaths has raised concerns among scientists to research on prospective anticancer agents. Lannea egregia was selected for this research because it has been identified to have ethnobotanical claims in relation to the cure of cancer in South-Wes...
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Research Article10.9734/jocamr/2023/v21i4446
Traditional and alternative medicine practitioners have an important role to play in the Gambian Healthcare sector, yet they have been sidelined. I believe that the nature of the Gambian Healthcare sector stands to benefit more if practitioners are regulated effectively. The heal...
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Research Article10.9734/jocamr/2023/v21i4444
Health rights are important fundamental human rights. But unfortunately missing in the Gambian 1997 Constitution. Besides, the right to health does not only pertain to the mainstream sector but extends to the practice of medical pluralism. In promoting medical pluralism in a cou...
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Research Article10.9734/jocamr/2023/v21i4445