Showing papers in "Journal of Ethnopharmacology in 2012"

TL;DR: The ethnopharmacological relevance of pomegranate is fully justified by the most recent findings indicating the fruit is a medicinal and nutritional agent useful for treating a wide range of human disorders and maladies.

TL;DR: The bioactive compounds in Sargassum spp.

TL;DR: A comprehensive review of the divergent actions of quercetin that contribute to the ethnopharmacological profile of these plants highlights the need to elucidate issues such as bioavailability as well as its correlation with effectiveness at biomarkers in vivo.

TL;DR: The focus is to screen published evidence on the role of syndrome differentiation in modern TCM research with particular emphasis on basic and clinical research as well as, pharmacological evaluation of TCM herbal formulary for drug discovery.

TL;DR: Kohghiluyeh va Boyer Ahmad has good ethnobotanical potential for medicinal plants and some considerable knowledge about local medicinal plants for treating common health problem is gathered and is ready to be further investigated in the laboratory.

TL;DR: Herb pairs have played, and may continue to play a key role in full investigation of general herb compatibility for their indispensable position in TCM, and much more research is needed for the standardization, safety evaluation, and mechanism exploration of herb pairs.

TL;DR: Systematic pharmacovigilance is essential to build up reliable information on the safety of herbal medicines for the development of appropriate guidelines for safe effective use.

TL;DR: The use of traditional medicine was still widespread among the people interviewed during this study, and herbal medicine seemed to be more related to health care and disease prevention than cure.

TL;DR: The resinous exudates from the bark of plants of the genus Commiphora are important indigenous medicines, and have a long medicinal application in Ayurvedic medicine, traditional Chinese medicine and other indigenous medical systems, and pharmacological results have validated the use of this genus in the traditional medicines.

TL;DR: Thymol is a promising compound to be used in treatment of inflammatory processes as well as wound healing in rodents and may be related to the presence of thymol in the essential oil.

TL;DR: Both the C-glycosyl bioflavonoids, namely, vitexin and isovitexIn exhibited in vivo α-glucosidase inhibition.

TL;DR: Seven immunomodulatory active compounds belonging to different classes have been isolated and characterised indicating that the immunommodulatory activity of Tinospora cordifolia may be attributed to the synergistic effect of group of compounds.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that Capsicum baccatum contains potential antioxidant and anti-inflammatory compounds which could be tested as drug candidates against oxidative and inflammation-related pathological processes in medicinal chemistry studies.

TL;DR: The quantitative market survey reveals that the trade in Ghanaian herbal medicine is of considerable economic importance, and it seems that medicinal plants are used to complement or substitute Western medicine.

TL;DR: The results clearly suggest that the hydro methanolic extract of leaves of Emblica officinalis Gaertn may effectively normalize the impaired antioxidant status in streptozotocin induced diabetes at dose dependent manner than the glibenclamide-treated groups.

TL;DR: Results obtained in this study suggest that the aqueous leaf extract of Moringa oleifera is relatively safe when administered orally.

TL;DR: This review aims to systematically summarize and analyze the anti-cancer properties of terpenoids, the main components of essential oils in Rhizoma Curcumae, and thus enable the development of new anti- cancer drugs.

TL;DR: The Good Practice in Traditional Chinese Medicine (GP-TCM) Consortium as mentioned in this paper has developed a series of guidelines and technical notes to facilitate good practice in collecting, assessing and publishing TCM literature as well as highlighting the scope of information that should be in future publications.

TL;DR: The majority of those plants that have been studied for antidiabetic activity showed promising results, mainly for Bauhinia forficata and Syzygium cumini, but for most of the plants mentioned, the studies are not sufficient to guarantee the efficacy and safety in the use of these plants in the treatment against diabetes.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the model of safety monitoring and risk management of TCM drugs and found that the characteristics and risk factors associated with these drugs require both proper understanding and control of the risk by strengthening standardization of clinical applications, basic science research, quality control in manufacturing, exploration of the actives monitoring methodology and enhancement of international communication and cooperation.

TL;DR: LBP is effective in reducing necroinflammation and oxidative stress induced by a chemical toxin, thus it has a great potential use as a food supplement in the prevention of hepatic diseases.

TL;DR: To fully exploit the potential of PCHM in cancer therapy, more attentions are advocated to be focused on their safety evaluation and mechanism exploration.

TL;DR: In this short review, omic applications inTCM research are reviewed which has allowed some speculation regarding future perspectives for these approaches in TCM modernisation and standardisation.

TL;DR: The data provide a rational base for the use of Ziziphus extracts in the treatment of breast cancer in Traditional Chinese Medicine and found that the most effective extracts ZE2 and ZE4 shared a number of triterpenic acids, already known for their anticancer activities.

TL;DR: TSEP dramatically reduced fasted blood glucose and serum insulin levels and alleviates hyperglycemia associated oxidative stress in T2DM rats, which support its antidiabetic property and implies a possibility that TSEP exerts its therapeutic effect through repressing chronic inflammation responses.

TL;DR: The historical evolution on the integration of the TCM pattern classification and disease diagnosis in biomedicine, the methodology of pattern classification for diseases, efficacy of TCM practice with integration ofTCM pattern classified and biomedical disease diagnosis, and the biological basis of TCm pattern were described.

TL;DR: This review provides a comprehensive summary of medicinal flora inhabitating throughout the world regarding their traditional usage by various tribes/ethnic groups for fertility regulation in females and indicates that it is time to increase the number of experimental studies to find out novel potential chemical entities from such a vast array of unexploited plants.

TL;DR: The results obtained in present study suggested that title plant exhibited sedative, antiepileptic and antipsychotic activity in mice and rats.

TL;DR: Moringa oleifera is genotoxic at supra-supplementation levels of 3,000 mg/kg b.wt, however, intake is safe at levels ≤ 1,000mg-wt, and hepatonephro-toxicity was nil with no abnormal haematology results.

TL;DR: It is critical that toxicologists in industry, regulatory agencies and academic institutions develop a consensus, based on rigorous methods, about the reliability and interpretation of endpoints in the integration of conventional methods for toxicity assessments with new "omics" technologies.