Showing papers in "Journal of Ethnopharmacology in 1992"

TL;DR: Ginseng, Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer, is a well-known Chinese traditional medicine that acts on the central nervous system, cardiovascular system and endocrine secretion, promotes immune function and metabolism, possesses biomodulation action, anti-stress and anti-ageing activities, and so on.

TL;DR: An updated and a multidisciplinary overview of the subject is provided on the basis of the author's personal experience--he is a native of Fiji and lived in that country for about 30 years--as well as the relevant literature listed in the Singh (1986) bibliography and some more recent publications.

TL;DR: Hot water infusions of flowers, leaves, roots, seeds and stalks or bark of Moringa oleifera were screened to detect three pharmacologic activities in experimental models in rats, showing significant inhibition of acetylcholine-induced contraction and some activity was also demonstrated in the roots.

TL;DR: Preliminary antimicrobial screening against Candida albicans and selected Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria of methanol extracts prepared from eight Mexican medicinal plants, noted for their antiseptic properties, was conducted, finding significant activity exhibited for extracts of Ratibida latipalearis, Teloxys graveolens, Dodonaea viscosa, Hyptis albida, H. pectinata and H. verticillata.

TL;DR: One hundred methanolic plant extracts, 96 of which had documented medicinal uses by British Columbian native peoples, were screened for antibiotic activity against 11 bacterial strains and ninety-five percent found to exhibit significant antibiotic activity.

TL;DR: A survey programme was organised in Lucknow and Farrukhabad, two towns of Uttar Pradesh, from March 1987 to July 1987, and the common folk medicine plants used by women were recorded and Ayurvedic and Unani drug encyclopedias were consulted for the antireproductive potential of these plants.

TL;DR: 'Trikatu' is an Ayurvedic preparation containing black pepper, long pepper and ginger, which is prescribed routinely for a variety of diseases as part of a multidrug prescription because of its bioavailability enhancing action on other medicaments.

TL;DR: Sixty-five plants used popularly in the treatment of such disorders in a Mixe Indian community in Oaxaca (Mexico) and collected during a fieldstudy of 15 months are described.

TL;DR: The ethnic background and traditional usage of these remedies was researched and a literature survey revealed that 57 different plants were used in herbal remedies during pregnancy and childbirth.

TL;DR: Two-hundred thirty-nine Madagascan medicinal plants have been either retrieved from computerized ethnobotany information or identified in ethnomedicine work as having antimalarial properties, reflecting the importance and the complication of this major tropical disease in Madagascar.

TL;DR: The taxonomic determination of 237 vegetal species from which 399 curative products are obtained are presented, in order to combat 57 illnesses, the most frequent of which are those related to the digestive system, the skin, the reproductive system and those of supernatural origin, which can only be treated by the use of plants in special ceremonies known as 'limpias'.

TL;DR: Ethnobotanical data collection to select pharmacologically active species was carried out within a clearly defined therapeutic context: those plants used during the course of a woman's reproductive life.

TL;DR: Given the potential of Brazil's forests and medicinal plants, research on traditional plant-based remedies in this country may lead to the development of new drugs.

TL;DR: The result of the research revealed that Shanidar IV flowers possess considerable therapeutic effects with marked medical activity, which could be an intentional reason for the selection of the flowers in Middle Paleolithic Shanidsar Neanderthals.

TL;DR: The antidiarrhoeal action of the extract may be due, in part, to the inhibition of the increased watery secretions that occur commonly in all acute diarrhoeal diseases and cholera.

TL;DR: A study on the wild and cultivated medicinal plants used in the Peninsula Sorrentina (southern Italy) is reported; 129 plants distributed among 53 different families beloning to Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms and Angiosperms are reported.

TL;DR: The present study indicates the need for critical review of the present recommendations regarding therapy with plant materials in countries relying on empiric traditions.

TL;DR: This study has demonstrated that Pera benensis, a medicinal plant used in folk medicine, is an efficient treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis.

TL;DR: The granuloma-tissue formation inhibiting activity of various fractions of an extract of the aerial parts of Withania somnifera were established using subcutaneous cotton-pellet implantation in rats and was comparable to that of a 5 mg/kg dose of hydrocortisone sodium succinate.

TL;DR: Based on a recent ethnobotanical study in Mexico, the activity of 29 plant extracts against Entamoeba histolytica, three bacteria, three fungi, and Micrococcus luteus are investigated.

TL;DR: Investigation of any SRC-phenytoin interaction from both pharmacokinetic (serum levels) and pharmacodynamic (electroshock seizure prevention) aspects found SRC itself showed significant antiepileptic activity compared to placebo and is worth further investigation, however, the clinical combination of SRC with pheny toin is not advised.

TL;DR: Fifty-nine plants are listed, which are used by traditional healers in the central and southern parts of Somalia, and the botanical name with synonyms, collection number, vernacular name, medicinal use, preparation of remedy and dosage are reported.

TL;DR: This work is an ethnobotanical study of some medicinal plants used by the Fang traditional healers of two regions of Equatorial Guinea in Central Africa: Malabo and Bata.

TL;DR: Data are consistent with impairment of a renal autoregulation mechanism in this experimental hypertensive model of renal function in both normal and experimental renal hypertension rats.

TL;DR: A list of plants used in treating ciguatera poisoning in the Western Pacific region is presented, with emphasis on species whose exact utilization has been determined.

TL;DR: The fallacy of the 'snail darter syndrome', where species may be viewed as too insignificant to worry about, is exposed by consideration of the pharmacological activities of a sea hare (a shell-less marine mollusc) and various leeches.

TL;DR: Bark of Annona salzmanii D.C. (Annonaceae), used in Brazilian folk medicine, was found to contain four benzylisoquinoline alkaloids, namely reticuline, anonaine, laurelliptine and isoboldine, which show some antifungal activity.

TL;DR: Structural evidence and biogenetic considerations, the aglucones of these glycosides can be considered as norlignans, derived from the union of two phenylpropanoid units in positions alpha, beta' or beta, gamma' and with the loss of the terminal carbon of a chain.

TL;DR: An ethnobotanical survey was carried out in the River Tenes valley, in an area of 260 km2 not far from the city of Barcelona, and obtained data on 209 species belonging to 60 families and here the findings on the properties, preparations and uses are presented.