Objective: To determine the chemical compositions of essential oil from the aerial parts of Equisetum ramosissimum (E. ramosissimum). Methods: The essential oil from the aerial parts of E. ramosissimum was detected using gas chromatography -mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Results: Che...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2016/24513
Red fruit (Pandanus conoideus Lam) has been used as a traditional herbal medicine in Papua and also as an agent against malignant diseases empirically. To elucidate the detailed mechanisms producing such an activity, the characterization and determination of the molecular mechani...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2016/24492
Aim: To identify types of herbal medicine used for HIV conditions in Vihiga county, Kenya. Study Design: Qualitative ethno botanical survey. Place and Duration of Study: Hamuyundi sub-location, west Sabatia location, Sabatia Sub County, Vihiga County – Kenya. The study was carrie...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2016/23180
Samuel Ehiabhi Okhale, Oluchi Roseline Igwe, Henry O. Egharevba, Grace Ugbabe, Jemilat A. Ibrahim & Oluyemisi Folashade Kunle·European Journal of Medicinal Plants·2016
Aim: Evaluation of the volatile oil constituents of the leaves of Landolphia owariensis collected from Suleja, Niger State, North Central Nigeria in July 2015, where it is valued as an important medicinal plant used in folk medicines. Methodology: Fresh leaves were hydrodistilled...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2016/23745
Seventeen groups of laboratory mice were infected with 200 cercariae of the helminth parasite, Schistosoma haematobium, per mouse, using the paddling technique. Mice in sixteen groups were subsequently treated with the plant extract of P. africana and E. senegalesis at weekly int...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2016/17675
Several ethnopharmacology studies have been conducted on medicinal plants used in traditional medicine to treat diseases related to digestive disorder, diabetes and hypertension etc. However, no study has focused on how the plants can be used to treat diseases related directly or...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2016/12946
Corbichonia decumbens (Forssk.) Exell is a medicinally important plant belonging to the family Molluginaceae. In this study we have standardized a protocol for both direct and indirect micropropagation. Callus was induced from the leaf, node and internode explants on Murashige an...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2016/23430
Aim: Hepatotoxicity, among other adverse effects, constitutes one of the greatest impediments to successful antiretroviral drug therapy (ART) in HIV/AIDS patients. The main objective of the study was to determine if the aqueous leaf extract of Ocimum gratissimum has a protective...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2016/23603
Herbal Medicines (HM) are being used in our country for a long time but the type and load of the microbial agents has not been isolated in locally produced finished products of HM. The present study was designed to assess the microbial load, genus & species of the microbes c...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2016/23556
Aims: In the presence of oxygen, most of the synthesized pyruvate during glycolysis in the cancer cell of solid tumors is released away from the mitochondria to form lactate (Warburg Effect). To maintain cell homeostasis, lactate is transported across the cell membrane by monocar...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2016/23992