Showing papers in "Journal of Ethnopharmacology in 1986"

TL;DR: It is found that the bark of Phagnalon rupestre is widely used to induce deliberate burns for the healing of various ailments, while infusion of the shoots of Teucrium polium, or of Artemisia herba-alba is employed to a lesser degree to relieve stomach disorders.

TL;DR: The mucilaginous gel from the parenchymatous cells in the leaf pulp of Aloe vera has been used since early times for a host of curative purposes and new experimental work has indicated the possibility of distinct physiological effects.

TL;DR: The immunobiological activity was investigated of certain medicinal plants widely used in the Ayurvedic and Unani systems of medicine for treatment of chronic infections and immunological disorders and Picrorhiza kurroa was found to be a potent immunostimulant, stimulating both cell-mediated and humoral immunity.

TL;DR: The fruit juice of M. charantia was found to significantly improve the glucose tolerance of 73% of the patients investigated while the other 27% failed to respond.

TL;DR: Oral doses of abafados up to 40 times larger than the corresponding dosage taken by humans, or of 200 mg/kg of citral, were unable to decrease body temperature of normal rats and/or rats made hyperthermic by previous administration of pyrogen, but by intraperitoneal route both compounds were active.

TL;DR: The results suggest that mild antisecretory and a localized adaptive cytoprotectant action may be responsible for its anti-ulcer activity.

TL;DR: In this protocol, the flavonoid quercetin purified from Diosma pilosa was found to have the same activity as a commercially obtained preparation, and simple radiometric assays for antimalarial activity can be used to rapidly screen purified plant material or secondary plant metabolites.

TL;DR: It is concluded that G 115 may be superior to placebo in improving certain psychomotor functions in healthy subjects.

TL;DR: The extent of knowledge and skills possessed by traditional healers and lay people, the plants and plant materials used by them for herbal remedies, parallel uses in India of the various plant species and their biodynamic properties are presented.

TL;DR: A series of 100 medicinal plants of Rwanda (282 plant samples) has been screened for antimicrobial activity against Bacillus subtilis, Candida albicans, Mycobacterium smegmatis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Salmonella gallinarum and Staphylococcus aureus.

TL;DR: It is concluded that lemongrass, one of the most popular Brazilian herbal medicines, used for its alleged CNS-depressant effects, is atoxic but lacks hypnotic or anxiolytic properties.

TL;DR: A large amount of ethnobotanical data of almost 200 botanical species used for medicinal purposes in the Canary Islands is presented to avoid the definitive loss of the islands' phytotherapeutic heritage.

TL;DR: Fractions isolated from Ocimum gratissimum leaves by lipid extraction and column- and thin-layer chromatography have been shown to contain components which contract guinea pig ileum, rat colon and raise rat mean arterial blood pressure.

TL;DR: The present study suggests that banana powder treatment not only strengthens mucosal resistance against ulcerogens but also promotes healing by inducing cellular proliferation.

TL;DR: Verapamil (10 microM) was shown to decrease the 50% inhibitory concentrations for Vinca alkaloids in CEM/VLB100 cells by approximately equal to 75-to 85-fold but caused only slight (approximately equal to 2-to 5fold) decreases in 50% inhibition for anthracyclines, epipodophyllotoxins, and other tubulin-binding drugs as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The results suggest that dietary supplementation with small amounts of ellagic acid may prove useful in reducing the risk of skin carcinogenesis induced by environmental chemicals.

TL;DR: The extra pancreatic effects of the oral hypoglycaemic plant Momordica charantia have been investigated in rats and it was found that the fruit juice of this plant caused an increased glucose uptake by tissues in vitro without concomitant increase of tissue respiration.

TL;DR: Antihypertensive effects in SHR rats were observed after the administration of Allium sativum Linn, Olea europaea Linn and Hedychium coronarium Koen.

TL;DR: The data indicate that molecules with insulin-like bioactivity are present in Momordica charantia seeds.

TL;DR: Findings for nine taxa of Murraya are reported, including the anti-implantation alkaloid yuehchukene from M. paniculata, which has been widely used in traditional medicine in east Asia.

TL;DR: In this part of the survey, plants with anti-inflammatory, anti-asthmatic and antihypertensive properties including plant part used and methods of preparation and administration are described.

TL;DR: 161 local plants, distributed in 64 botanical families, currently used for treating 38 common diseases in Haiti are listed.

TL;DR: Forty eight plant species were found to be used by Ondo people in folk medicine and fourteen species were finding to contain alkaloids and 34 plant species found to have local actions.

TL;DR: A safe dosage regimen with direct use of the latex has been elucidated to control intestinal helminthiasis in the Indian and non-Indian rural population.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of methanol extractives from tea leaves on hypercholesterolemia was examined in animal models, and it was found that orally administered (−)-epicatechin gallate and (−)epigallocate chalate from the tea leaves lowered the serum cholesterol level in mice fed a high fat emulsion.

TL;DR: A new diterpene diol exhibits significant antimicrobial activity against several bacteria and fungi in Tetradenia riparia, a popular medicinal plant in Rwanda.

TL;DR: The main constituents of the ethanol extract of Pyrenacantha staudtii leaves were identified to be triterpenoid saponins and orally this extract was shown to protect rats from developing gastric ulcers induced by various experimental models: drugs, cold-restraint stress and Shay rat.

TL;DR: The results obtained show that the fresh oil given intraperitoneally offers some protection against leptazol-induced convulsions.

TL;DR: Butin isolated from the seeds of Butea monosperma and administered orally to adult female rats at the doses of 5, 10 and 20 mg/rat showed anti-implantation activity in 40%, 70% and 90% of the treated animals, respectively.