Jamu is the Indonesian traditional herbal medicine that has been practised for many
centuries in the Indonesian community to maintain good health and to treat diseases …

Traditional medicines have been used to treat malaria for thousands of years and are the
source of the two main groups (artemisinin and quinine derivatives) of modern antimalarial …

Parasitic diseases remain a major public health problem affecting hundreds of millions of
people, particularly in tropical developing countries. The limited availability and affordability …

Plants are not only important to the millions of people to whom traditional medicine serves
as the only opportunity for health care and to those who use plants for various purposes in …

Publisher Summary Soursop (A. muricata) fruit is useful as a processed product due to its
high pulp recovery and many flavor compounds, particularly rich volatiles. Some constraints …

AIM OF THE STUDY: The present work tested the power of different methodological
strategies for identifying plants that could be interesting in terms of their phenolic …

Strong antiviral and antimicrobial activities were detected in methanolic extracts of 24 plants
used medicinally in the treatment of skin infections in four different regions of Colombia …

Malaria is an increasing worldwide threat, with more than three hundred million infections
and one million deaths every year. The worlds poorest are the worst affected, and many treat …

Methanol extracts were prepared from 19 medicinal plants of Togo and, by means of
standard laboratory tests, were analysed for antiviral and antibiotic activities. Ten of the 19 …

There are many vanishing cultures that possess a wealth of knowledge on the medicinal
utility of plants. The Malasars of Dravidian Tamils are an indigenous society occupying the …