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Coconut Sprouts as Phytomedicine
Published in Parimelazhagan Thangaraj, Phytomedicine, 2020
S. Abiraami Valli, S. Uma Gowrie
Arecaceae (Palms) is a very large family, which is of commercial importance, as it is a valuable source of edible fruits, nuts, oil, fiber, and woods. Palm trees include important medicinal and agricultural plants, such as coconut (Cocos nucifera), date palm (Phoenix dactylifera), oil palm (Elaeis guineensis), true sago palm (Metroxylon sagu), and rattan (Calamus sp.). Palm fruits have been found to contain a number of biological components, namely, carotenes, tocopherols, polyphenols, phenolic acids, and flavonoids with several biological properties (Tan et al. 2007).
Fruits, Vegetables and Tubers
Published in Bill Pritchard, Rodomiro Ortiz, Meera Shekar, Routledge Handbook of Food and Nutrition Security, 2016
Dates (Phoenix dactylifera) are an important food crop in the Middle East and North Africa. Dates are a low moisture fruit very rich in sugar and dietary fibre and have been an important food crop for millennia. Ironically, date palm is an oasis crop that requires abundant water for optimum production. The high productivity of date palm plantations along the Egyptian Nile stands in stark contrast to much lower per unit productivity values in many other countries (Mumtaz Khan and Prathapar 2012). However, being more tolerant than most crops to brackish water (up to 4 dS/m) (Ayers and Westcot 1985) permits its production in other countries lacking abundant fresh water resources.
Henipaviruses
Published in Sunit K. Singh, Human Respiratory Viral Infections, 2014
Olivier Escaffre, Viktoriya Borisevich, Barry Rockx
In Bangladesh, where NiV-B spillover occurs almost annually, there is a temporal association between bat reproduction and potential zoonotic spillover events.25 Interestingly, unlike outbreaks of HeV or NiV-M, no intermediate host was identified in outbreaks of NiV-B in Bangladesh and India. During these outbreaks, the most frequently implicated route of transmission was the consumption of contaminated date palm sap,22 based on epidemiological data. Pteropid bats are believed to contaminate the raw date palm sap by licking the date palm sap’s producing surface or contamination by urine or feces.
Promising anti-Helicobacter pylori and anti-inflammatory metabolites from unused parts of Phoenix dactylifera CV ‘Zaghloul’: in vitro and in silico study
Published in Pharmaceutical Biology, 2023
Nada Elhefni, Sherif S. Ebada, Marwa M. Abdel-Aziz, El-Sayed M. Marwan, Saleh El-Sharkawy, Mona El-Neketi
Phoenix dactylifera Linn (palm tree) is a member of Arecaceae family, which comprises approximately 235 genera including 4000 species, and it is one of the most cultivated palms among the fourteen Phoenix species (Aydeniz-Güneşer 2022). Date palm is a rich source for fatty materials, carotenoids, polyphenols (such as phenolic acids, flavonoids, isoflavones and lignans), tannins and sterols (Bentrad and Hamida-Ferhat 2020; Suleiman et al. 2021).
Effect of Pollen, Pit Powder, and Gemmule Extract of Date Palm on Male Infertility: A Systematic Review
Published in Journal of the American College of Nutrition, 2018
Tuğba Tatar, Yasemin Akdevelioğlu
The date palm is a fruit that has been consumed by humans since ancient times and used as an herbal remedy. It is known to have been used to treat male infertility in Ancient Egypt. Recent scientific studies have proven that it has positive effects on male infertility.
Date seed oil loaded niosomes: development, optimization and anti-inflammatory effect evaluation on rats
Published in Drug Development and Industrial Pharmacy, 2018
Mahmoud S. Soliman, Fathy I. Abd-Allah, Talib Hussain, Noha M. Saeed, Hossam S. El-Sawy
The date (Phoenix dactylifera), a flowering plant species in the palm family, Arecaceae, has constantly played a dynamic role in the economy and social life of the people of arid and semiarid regions of the world. The world production of date fruits was about 6.64 million tons in 2007 and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is considered to be one of the vital and known date producing countries [12]. Over 450 date palm varieties or cultivars are grown in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and yield more than 1 million metric tons of date fruits accounting for about 14% of the total world production [13]. The relative percentage weight of date seeds to the date fruits ranges from 6.10 to 11.47% [14]. Talking about the bioactivity, Ines et al. recently reported the protective effect of date seed oil (DSO) against hydrogen peroxide-induced oxidative stress using normal human epidermal keratinocytes. He found that, DSO has significant chemoprotective effect, by inhibition of damage caused by H2O2 compared with cells without such addition endowing with a radical scavenging ability. Finally, he concluded that DSO can be a potential promising candidate, as a chemopreventive agent, in the development of keratinocytes-related pathologies [15]. In addition, DSO extract has a lower degree of unsaturation and low content of linoleic acid, as compared to other consumable vegetable oils, which can be potential medicine in various ailments [16]. Due to the high-oxidative stability of DSO, it would be a good ingredient as a powerful antioxidant for cosmetic and pharmaceutical products such as sun-block creams that provide protection against both UV-A and UV-B, which are responsible for cellular damage [17]. The inspiration for studying the medicinal properties of the date is derived from previous narration, which pointed to the preventative and healing properties of dates. The anti-inflammatory activity of the pure isolates from Ajwa fruits was confirmed in our laboratories (in a pilot study) which was compatible with what was reported about their cyclo-oxygenase-1 and -2 enzyme inhibitions [18]. In addition, date palm fruit exhibits potent anti-oxidative properties, potentially in preventing cell damage and cancer therapeutics. However, little is known about the underlying pharmacological mechanisms of date fruit owing to the vast active entities found in date pit extract with many synergistic and additive interactions, which give the date its massive capability of diseases remediation and prohibition [19].