Botanical Medicine

ABSTRACT The powdered rhizome of turmeric has been extensively used in India and other South Asian cuisines, and is an ...

ABSTRACT Even though plants containing the alkaloid berberine have been used in Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine for over 2500 years, ...

Objective: We conducted a comprehensive review of the most current data available on the antihypertensive effects of 29 different nutraceuticals ...

Patients infected with chikungunya virus (CHIKV) exhibit specific characteristics, including high fever, rigors, headache, photophobia, petechial rash or maculopapular ...

In the following paper, we will review the available literature on synergy and additive effects involving medicinal herbs and ...

Rosmarinic acid (RosA) is an ester of caffeic acid and 3,4-dihydroxyphenylactic acid. RosA has a number of beneficial biological ...

Peripheral metabolism plays a significant role in maintaining thyroid hormone expression in local tissues. The thyroid secretes thyroxine (T4) ...

Objective: To determine if oral artemisinin is safe and has a short-term effect on prostate specific antigen (PSA) kinetics in ...

Objective: To determine if aqueous, polysaccharide-containing Echinacea purpurea extracts taken orally increase pro-inflammatory cytokine responses ex vivo. Design: In two ...

Rosmarinic acid, a caffeic acid ester and a component of several members of the Lamiaceae family including Rosmarinus officinalis, ...

Objective: Quercetin, resveratrol and curcumin are plant derived natural products that are rapidly gaining popularity as supplements for a ...

Objective: Lomatium dissectum is a plant native to the Western US traditionally used in the Native American culture to treat ...

This paper reviews the use of whole-plant Artemisia annua (sweet Annie) as it pertains to malaria including history, chemistry, ...

Pulsatilla, Nepeta, and Rauvolfia are important therapeutic agents with nerve-calming effects. Although not as strong as anxiolytic drugs, these ...

Plant based natural products have been proposed as alternatives to the use of hormones for the treatment of menopausal ...

Lobelia is a genus of flowering plants that includes approximately 400 species and was popular in traditional Native American ...

Traditional herbal medicine has gained increasing attention as alternative therapy for the treatment of liver disease, which has become ...

Autoimmune diseases are a group of disorders in which the immune system dysfunctions and attacks host tissues. Although the ...

Fibromyalgia is a debilitating condition presenting with symptoms of chronic muscular pain, fatigue, insomnia and cognitive dysfunction among other ...

We have reached a limit in our ability to reduce the incidence of coronary heart disease and cardiovascular disease ...

Rosmarinic acid has been shown to selectively induce T cell apoptosis in aberrant lymphocytes, but not normal/quiescent T cells ...

Herbal medicines have been effectively used for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases for many years. Herbs such as Convallaria ...

Glycyrrhiza may be appropriate as an adjunctive therapy for a variety of disorders involving mild adrenal insufficiency, low aldosterone ...

Rauwolfia, Viscum, and Psicidia are well known herbs used in the treatment of hypertension. These herbs contain several different ...

Pueraria mirifica, a member of the Leguminoseae family, is an herb indigenous to Thailand and has been researched extensively ...

Iodine is an essential component of thyroid hormones and is therefore essential for normal thyroid function. However, the therapeutic ...

Adaptogens are plant derived compounds that normalize endocrine function and promote adaptation to environmental stress. Adaptogenic herbs modulate stress ...

Autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA), ankylosing spondylitis, and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), involve destruction of healthy cells ...