Showing papers in "Journal of Ethnopharmacology in 1991"

TL;DR: The extract showed antibacterial synergism with streptomycin and gentamicin and showed additive antibacterial action with spectinomycin, erythromycin, tobramycin, doxycycline, chloramphenicol, nalidixic acid, ampicillin and sulphamethoxyzole-trimethoprim combination.

TL;DR: The study of the main therapeutic indications of the medicinal plants gives a clear picture of the health problems which are treated by traditional medicine in Morocco.

TL;DR: Propolis bee preparations revealed good antibacterial, antifungal and antiinflammatory effects but no antiamoebic or antipyretic capacity.

TL;DR: The antimicrobial activities of Moringa oleifera leaves, roots, bark and seeds were investigated in vitro against bacteria, yeast, dermatophytes and helminths pathogenic to man and no activity was exhibited by any part of the tree in contrast to Chenopodium ambrosioides leaf extracts.

TL;DR: The clinical efficacy of a herbomineral formulation containing roots of Withania somnifera, the stem of Boswellia serrata, rhizomes of Curcuma longa and a zinc complex, was evaluated in patients with osteoarthritis.

TL;DR: Folk medicine in northwest Anatolia has been studied and 116 remedies prepared from 67 plant and 8 animal species are described, each with vernacular names, methods of preparation and traditional uses as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: This survey demonstrated that the Carib population of Guatemala has survived in a transcultural environment of African and native Amerindian beliefs.

TL;DR: The importance of the plant kingdom as a source of new antiviral substances will be illustrated by presenting a survey on plant-derived antirhinovirus and anti-HIV agents.

TL;DR: The peripheral analgesic effect of myrcene was confirmed by testing a standard commercial preparation on the hyperalgesia induced by prostaglandin in the rat paw test and upon the contortions induced by intraperitoneal injections of iloprost in mice.

TL;DR: Fungicidal and fungistatic activities as well as the minimal inhibitory concentration were demonstrated and provide a scientific basis for the use of these plants for the treatment of dermatophyte infections in man.

TL;DR: The analysis of the plants of North America shows that the medicinal species utilized by Native North Americans are distributed in a highly non-random fashion across subclasses and families as well as across groups defined in terms of growth habit and life pattern.

TL;DR: The extract was shown to cause an increase in volume and pH of gastric juice of the animals with the pH effects comparable to those of cimetidine, which tends to confirm the popular use of the plant.

TL;DR: It is possible that the plant could act by providing certain necessary elements like calcium, zinc, magnesium, manganese and copper to the beta-cells to help regulate blood glucose levels in normal as well as in diabetic rabbits.

TL;DR: A number of laboratories throughout the world are currently investigating plants used in traditional medicine for their active constituents, and there is every possibility that such approaches which use leads from Ethnopharmacology will result in the development of new antimalarial agents.

TL;DR: The extracts of both Artocarpus heterophyllus and Asteracanthus longifolia significantly improved glucose tolerance in the normal subjects and the diabetic patients when investigated at oral doses equivalent to 20 g/kg of starting material.

TL;DR: Sixty-one Angiosperms (Passifloraceae to Sapindaceae) are listed, which are used by traditional healers in five regions of Eastern Tanzania, namely, Coast, Dar es Salaam, Kilimanjaro, Morogoro and Tanga.

TL;DR: A new strategy for the discovery of anticancer agents from plants is proposed in which ethnomedical information is correlated against pertinent published chemical and biological information, resulting in a prioritization of plants for collection.

TL;DR: Ginseng attenuated pentylenetetrazole-induced decrease in rat brain MAO activity, confirming its anxiolytic activity since this has been proposed to be an endogenous marker for anxiety.

TL;DR: In mice, an extract of Crocus sativus stigmas partially prevented the decreases in body weight, hemoglobin levels and leucocyte counts caused by 2 mg/kg of cisplatin i.p. for 5 days.

TL;DR: Preliminary in vitro results provide scientific basis for the use of these plants against bacterial respiratory infections.

TL;DR: Essential oil from Achillea fragrantissima exerted a bactericidic effect on several gram positive and gram negative bacterial strains, as well as on Candida albicans, and one of these compounds was identified as terpinen-4-ol.

TL;DR: The results of various in vitro and in vivo studies indicate that cathinone must be considered a natural amphetamine, and it has recently been demonstrated that Cathinone has in humans marked euphorigenic and psychostimulant effects.

TL;DR: Ginkgolides are unique twenty-carbon terpenes, occurring naturally only in the roots and leaves of Ginkgo biloba, and are specific and potent antagonists of platelet-activating factor (PAF), a potent inflammatory autacoid.

TL;DR: A methanolic fraction from an extract of Bryophyllum pinnatum leaves was found to possess significant anti-ulcer activity in nine different experimental animals models and enhancement of the healing process was found in acetic acid-induced chronic gastric lesions in rats.

TL;DR: Data is presented on the use of Amanita muscaria, Fomes fomentarius, Inonotus obliquus, Phellinus nigricans and the puff-ball in folk medicine and the fungal flora of the forest zone of West Siberia.

TL;DR: An alcoholic extract of whole plant Boerhaavia diffusa given orally exhibited hepatoprotective activity against experimentally induced carbon tetrachloride hepatotoxicity in rats and mice.

TL;DR: It was demonstrated that the pyro-type aconitine alkaloids produced through the processing of raw aconite roots, 'Bushi', have a role in the medicinal effects of the processed aconite powder 'Kako-bushi-matsu'.

TL;DR: A chloroform-soluble fraction from Calotropis procera roots showed significant dose-related antiinflammatory activity in rats using the pharmacologic models of carrageenin-induced pedal oedema, cotton pellet granuloma and formaldehyde-induced arthritis.

TL;DR: Thirty-seven species of medicinal plants used in folk phytotherapy were chemically screened for alkaloids, coumarins, flavonoids, anthraquinones, saponins, sterols and/or triterpenes and tannins and seven were screened for the presence of mutagenic activity using the Ames test.