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Ascertainment of pharmacological activities of Hook and Roxb used in Bangladesh: An in vitro study.

Journal of traditional and complementary medicine
The present study was cherished to investigate in vitro thrombolytic, membrane stabilizing and antibacterial activities of and . Different types methanolic extracts of these two medicinal plants were tested for determining membrane stabilizing activ...

Anticonvulsant effect of ethanolic extract of L. leaves on pentylenetetrazol induced seizure in mice.

Journal of traditional and complementary medicine
(CA) rhizomes have demonstrated different properties on nervous system. However, the leaves still have not studied to treat epilepsy. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of CA ethanolic extract on pentylenetetrazol (PTZ) induced seizur...

(matico) prevents collagen-induced platelet activation by decreasing phospholipase C-gamma 2 and protein kinase C phosphorylation signaling.

Journal of traditional and complementary medicine
Platelets play a key role in thrombosis and cardiovascular diseases. Medicinal plants could be one of the most important factors that influence risks for platelet activation. (known as "matico") is a medicinal plant with many biological activities. ...

Antidepressant-like effects of Gan-Mai-Dazao-Tang via monoamine regulatory pathways on forced swimming test in rats.

Journal of traditional and complementary medicine
Depression is a highly prevalent and recurrent mental disorder that impacts all aspects of human life. Undesirable effects of the antidepressant drugs led to the development of complementary and alternative therapies. Gan-Mai-Da-Zao-Tang (, gān mài d...

Chemical composition, acute toxicity, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities of Moroccan L.

Journal of traditional and complementary medicine
Hydro-distilled essential oil (EO) from the leaves of the western Mediterranean and Moroccan endemic plant was analyzed by GC/MS and examined for its acute toxicity on mice, in order to establish the safe doses. Furthermore, the anti-Inflammatory ac...

Screening for antibacterial and antibiofilm activity in Thai medicinal plant extracts against oral microorganisms.

Journal of traditional and complementary medicine
To evaluate the antibacterial activity of 12 ethanol extracts of Thai traditional herb against oral pathogens. The antibacterial activities were assessed by agar well diffusion, broth microdilution, and time-kill methods. Antibiofilm activity was inv...

Morinda citrifolia L. fruit extracts modulates H2O2-induced oxidative stress in human liposarcoma SW872 cells.

Journal of traditional and complementary medicine
Morinda citrifolia L. commonly known as noni is used by the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries due to the plethora of pharmacological activities of its metabolites. In Mauritius, the fruits of M. citrifolia are used in folk medicine against a num...

Antibacterial and antibiotic potentiating activity of leaves and ripe fruit pericarp against human pathogenic clinical bacterial isolates.

Journal of traditional and complementary medicine
This study aimed to assess the antibacterial and antibiotic potentiating property of (VM) (fruit and leaf extracts) against 10 clinical isolates. A microdilution broth susceptibility assay for bacteria was used for the determination of the minimum i...

Proliferative activity of a blend of Echinacea angustifolia and Echinacea purpurea root extracts in human vein epithelial, HeLa, and QBC-939 cell lines, but not in Beas-2b cell lines.

Journal of traditional and complementary medicine
Echinacea is used for its immunostimulating properties and may have a role in modulating adverse immune effects of chemotherapy (i.e., use of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU); fluorouracil and its immunosuppressive effect). Patients may seek herbal remedies suc...

Development of an antidiabetic formulation (ADJ6) and its inhibitory activity against α-amylase and α-glucosidase.

Journal of traditional and complementary medicine
There has recently been much advancement in the diagnosis, treatment, and research of metabolic disorders, especially diabetes. Current research around the world is focused on finding an alternative source of treatment from natural resources for diab...