Showing papers in "Journal of Ethnopharmacology in 1983"

TL;DR: G. sylvestre, a herb used for the control of diabetes mellitus in several parts of India, appears to correct the metabolic derangements in diabetic rabbit liver, kidney and muscle.

TL;DR: Salvia divinorum is a perennial labiate used for curing and divination by the Mazatec Indians of Oaxaca, Mexico as mentioned in this paper, and the psychotropic effects the plant produces are compared to those of the other hallucinogens employed by Mazatecs, the morning glory, Rivea corymbosa L., Hallier f. and the psilocybin-containing mushrooms.

TL;DR: An epidemiological research to compare Northern and Southern regions of Somalia and to obtain a rough estimate of prevalence, definition of social characteristics of the groups of consumers, specification of the motivations, patterns of use and effects during and after consumption has been conducted.

TL;DR: Forty five plants are listed, which are used by traditional healers in the northeastern part of Tanzania, including medical use, isolated constituents and pharmacological effects.

TL;DR: Forty-six plants are listed, which are used by traditional healers in the northeastern part of Tanzania, including medical use, isolated constituents and pharmacological effects.

TL;DR: The screening procedures used for the evaluation of synthetic medicinals generally are not appropriate for guiding the extraction of active principles from crude drugs and establishing extraction efficiency; therefore, specialized techniques unique to ethnopharmacology must be used.

TL;DR: Phytochemical screening revealed that C. phyllocephala contains tertiary and quaternary alkaloids, sesquiterpene lactones, methylated flavones and their glycosides, as well as leuco- and proanthocyanidines which indicates the presence of some toxic or active compounds which merit phytochemical isolation.

TL;DR: Inventaire floristique des plantes medicinales rencontrees en Afrique occidentale de leurs propretes (antibacterien, antibiotique, anthelminthique, insecticide molluscicide)

TL;DR: The Waorani Indians of eastern Ecuador are one of the least acculturated tribes in South America and hence provide a unique opportunity for studying the role of medicinal plants in an isolated Amazonian people, but a surprising dearth of endemic disease is revealed.

TL;DR: The results validate the popular use of this plant for treatment of Diabetes mellitus symptomatology and induced hypoglucemic effects when orally administered to intact animals under induced states of moderate increase of blood sugar.

TL;DR: This research report contains a list of 89 medicinal plants employed by the Qollahuaya (Callawaya) Andeans of Bolivia, who are famous herbalists in South America, which contains botanical classification, origin of plant, quality, therapeutical properties, and medicinal uses.

TL;DR: Thirteen commonly used herbal plants in the Anambra State of Nigeria were identified and collected and extracts were prepared and studied pharmacologically on various isolated and intact preparations.

TL;DR: The botanical remedies reported in Heyne's De Nuttige Planten van Nederlandsch-Indië have been screened out of economic botanical context, translated into English and summarized as a table of names, therapeutic indications, plant parts, and available details of preparation and use.

TL;DR: A screening was performed of a series of plants belonging to the indole alkaloid rich plant families Apocynaceae and Loganiaceae, and a number of extracts showed activity against the gram-positive test organisms, and 4 species showedActivity against gram-negative bacteria.

TL;DR: Fifty nine local plant species used for treating various illnesses were collected, identified and deposited in the Fourah Bay College Herbarium, and their medicinal uses and methods of preparing the drug are described.

TL;DR: It is concluded that kava causes paralysis by mechanisms similar to local anaesthetics.

TL;DR: The symptomology of tetrodotoxication as described in the biomedical literature is compared with the constellations of symptoms recorded from the zombies in Haiti, and the cosmological rationale of zombies within the context of Voodoo theology is described.

TL;DR: The literature yields convincing clinical evidence that atropine, cocaine, nicotine and scopolamine are effective following nasal application, but experimental confirmation of the efficacy of nasal tryptamine alkaloids is still awaited.

TL;DR: Corroborating this possibility the hydrosoluble portion of the hydrolate mimicked all of its effects: reduced motor activity, potentiated barbiturate sleeping time of mice and decreased body temperature of rats.

TL;DR: About 60 new drugs have originated directly or indirectly from Chinese medicinal plants by means of modern scientific methods, showing that medicinal plants are an important source in searching for new drugs.

TL;DR: The results of one field-based screen of ethnopharmaceutical resources indicate that the most commonly used remedies in an ethnomedical system are also those most likely to contain active constituents.

TL;DR: Although pharmacological studies of 48 species showed that muscle-relaxant and/ or convulsant properties were generally present, antimicrobial, cytotoxic and hypotensive properties among others have also been demonstrated by some of the species and/or alkaloids.

TL;DR: T tobacco originates in the New World, where its use by the Pre-Columbian Indians was described by Spanish chroniclers, and in Mexico this use was mainly associated with the priesthood.

TL;DR: Results from laboratory analysis of maguey syrup indicate that its utilization as a remedy by ancient and modern Mesoamericans could contribute to the healing process of aerobic wound infections.

TL;DR: The procedure for the preparation of Anna Pavala Sindhooram (APS), a drug based on the concepts of Indian medicine for the prevention and reversal of the atherosclerotic disease process is described in detail.

TL;DR: Chemical analysis of samples of D. hopwoodii and in particular of a museum sample of pituri collected from the Mulligan-Georgina Rivers area, an esteemed area for pituri, validate the anthropological hypothesis that the Aborigine had considerable empirical knowledge of nicotine and related alkaloids.