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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Herbal medicines"”.
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The use of traditional herbal medicines among palliative care patients at Mulanje Mission Hospital, Malawi
Background: The prevalence of use of traditional medicines by patients receiving palliative care is poorly documented. In 2002, the World Health Organisation estimated about 4 billion people (80% of the world’s population) used traditional medicines for some aspect of primary healthcare, with 90% …
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Perfil dos medicamentos fitoterápicos mais comercializados em farmácia magistral do município de João Pessoa-PB.
Medicinal plants and herbal medicines are widely used in developing countries, this factor related to the difficulty in access to medicines in medical care, the ease of obtaining of medicinal plants and the wide cultural tradition. The present study aimed to evaluate the profile of herbal medicines …
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Herbal medicines:physician's recommendation and clinical evaluation of St.John's Wort for depression
Why some physicians recommend herbal medicines while others do not is not well understood. We undertook a survey designed to identify factors, which predict recommendation of herbal medicines by physicians in Malaysia. About a third (206 out of 626) of the physicians working at the University of …
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Garlic and African olive used as traditional Herbs for hypertension in the Western Cape
… progressive manner. In South Africa,traditional herbal medicines have been used to treat many ailments especially hypertension.Garlic and African olive has been reported as herbal medicines that have anti-hypertensive properties and may be used to control hypertension, either individually or in …
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Garlic and African olive used as traditional Herbs for hypertension in the Western Cape
… progressive manner. In South Africa,traditional herbal medicines have been used to treat many ailments especially hypertension.Garlic and African olive has been reported as herbal medicines that have anti-hypertensive properties and may be used to control hypertension, either individually or in …
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Value creation through modernizing Chinese medicine
… of distinctive medical philosophies of Chinese herbal medicines in practices, reflecting the uniqueness and advantages of Chinese medicine. For example, there are 96,592 mixed formula recorded by "Dictionary of Chinese Medicine Mixed Formula" published in 1997. My second hypothesis in this …
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A survey of herbal medicine use in hypertensive patients at the University Teaching Hospital Lusaka, Zambia
The safety and efficacy profiles of herbal medicines have not yet been established in treatment of hypertension. The study investigated the prevalence of herbal medicine use in hypertensive patients being managed at the University Teaching Hospital. It also determined control of blood pressure …
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A survey of herbal medicine use in hypertensive patients at the University Teaching Hospital Lusaka, Zambia
The safety and efficacy profiles of herbal medicines have not yet been established in treatment of hypertension. The study investigated the prevalence of herbal medicine use in hypertensive patients being managed at the University Teaching Hospital. It also determined control of blood pressure …
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The development of Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) based methods for the identification and authentication of medicinal plant material.
Herbal medicines are growing in popularity in the Western world and are becoming more stringently regulated under new EU legislation. Within the arena of herbal medicines, St. John’s Wort (SJW), Hypericum perforatum, is a top ten best seller with clinical evidence to support its use as an …
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Methods for Exploring Heterogeneity in Systematic Reviews of Randomized Controlled Trials
… 1. A sample of randomized controlled trials of herbal medicines was collected and assessed with a recently developed extension of the CONSORT statement for herbal medicine trials. 2. A methodological review of proposed methods of assessing clinical heterogeneity in meta-analyses of randomized …
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The enchantment of Western Herbal Medicine
In the UK the profession of Western Herbal Medicine (WHM) has had to engage with politics and with science in order to survive. Social science work on WHM suggests that traditional knowledge is being overtaken by biomedical knowledge, with one paradigm replacing another, although collaboration with …
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The Enchantment of Western Herbal Medicine
In the UK the profession of Western Herbal Medicine(WHM) has had to engage with politics and with science in order to survive. Social science work on WHM suggests that traditional knowledge is being overtaken by biomedical knowledge, with one paradigm replacing another, although collaboration with …
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The use of whole blood cell cultures as a model for assessing the effects of SeptilinTM on the immune system.
… there has been a huge increase in the use of herbal medicine globally. The active principles of these herbal medicines are mostly unknown with supportive evidence for safety and efficacy very rare. SeptilinTM is a phytopharmaceutical formulation which is recommended for the treatment and …
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Zulu traditional healers’ conceptualization and treatment of trauma
… that more work is required to ensure that the herbal medicines used to treat patients on traditional medicine conventions are utilized. The main aim of this study was to investigate the conceptualization of trauma by Zulu traditional healers. It objectives being to elicit views on traditional …
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Cultural and Social Factors Impacting on the Programme to Prevent-Mother-To-Child-Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV in Namibia: a Case Study of the Kavango Region
… indicate that women utilized various traditional herbal medicines for themselves and their babies as part of their cultural beliefs and practices. It was evident that some of these, such as Likuki, affect women's participation in and adherence to the protocols of the PMTCT programme.
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Aspectos anatômicos de órgãos vegetativos (folha e caule) de Dioclea grandiflora, e sua importância química e farmacológica.
… assist in drug control and in the production of herbal medicines.
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A controlled trial of Chinese herbal medicine for premenstrual syndrome
… reproductive years. The Chinese have been using herbal medicines to treat menstrual cycle related symptoms for centuries. Traditional Chinese medicine provides the aetiology and pathogenesis of the symptoms of this disorder by applying Pattern Identification to diagnose the signs and symptoms of …
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An inventory and pharmacological evaluation of medicinal plants used as anti-diabetes and anti-arthritis in Vhembe District Municipality, Limpopo Province
… practitioners in the preparation of their herbal medicines.
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The significance of OATP and CYP450 in statin-flavonoid interactions
… interactions between statins and conventional medicines that may inhibit metabolic pathways important to statin clearance. Though drug-drug interactions are well characterised with statins, there has been little investigation into herb-drug interactions with statins. Herbal medicines are a type …
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