Background: Constant exposure to various stressors, such as immune pressure, rapidly
increasing population, deleterious changes in the ecosystem, climate change, infection with …

Panax ginseng Meyer has been widely used as a tonic in traditional Korean, Chinese, and
Japanese herbal medicines and in Western herbal preparations for thousands of years. In …

Modulation of the immune system can be addressed through a variety of specific and non-
specific approaches. Many agents of synthetic and natural origin have stimulatory …

Background There is ethnopharmacological evidence that Petiveria alliacea can have
antitumor activity; however, the mechanism of its cytotoxic activity is not well understood. We …

Vaccines that protect against intracellular infections such as malaria, Leishmania and
Chlamydia require strong cellular responses based on CD4+ T cells and CD8+ T cells in …

Recent findings suggest that part of the anti-tumor effects of several chemotherapeutic
agents require an intact immune system. This is in part due to the induction of immunogenic …

Well water could be a stable source of drinking water. Recently, the use of well water as
drinking water has been encouraged in developing countries. However, many kinds of …

Objectives To assess the effectiveness of traditional herbal medicine (THM) as adjunctive
therapy for breast cancer as evidenced by randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Methods …

The use of herbs to treat illness has its roots in an ancient holistic healing tradition that
originated in Asia more than 3,000 years ago (10). Largely discounted by 19th and 20th …

Melanoma is the most aggressive form of skin cancer and arises from melanocyte gene
mutation. This disease is multifactorial, but its main cause is the excessive exposure to …