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Heavy Metal Pollution and Medicinal Plants
Published in Azamal Husen, Environmental Pollution and Medicinal Plants, 2022
Allah Ditta, Naseer Ullah, Xiaomin Li, Ghulam Sarwar Soomro, Muhammad Imtiaz, Sajid Mehmood, Amin Ullah Jan, Muhammad Shahid Rizwan, Muhammad Rizwan, Iftikhar Ahmad
Physiological factors of crops enable harmful chemicals to accumulate in stems, shoots, or leaves. Most species have noticeable oxidative damage like necrosis, while others do not have visual symptoms and need biochemical investigation. Some experiments have shown that certain varieties of medicinal plants have a distinct capacity for bioaccumulation of HMs (Galal and Shehata, 2015). For instance, Plantago major is a hyperaccumulator of Fe and aluminium (Al) since the shoot can accumulate concentrations greater than 1,000 mg kg-1. A further experiment by Angelova et al. (2015) indicated that lavender (Lavandula vera L.) is capable of tolerating higher concentrations of different HMs (Pb, Cd, and Zn) and hence can be classified as a hyperaccumulator. The plant species could be effectively utilized for the phytoremediation of toxic HMs in soils. Research by Lajayer et al. (2019) demonstrated that low concentrations of phytonutrients or HMs would accumulate in edible portions of the basil plant, whereas the study by Fattahi et al. (2019) demonstrated that sweet basil production was severely impaired by polluted soil containing Cd and Pb. Furthermore, HMs could inflict detrimental consequences on germinating seeds as well as on plant physicochemical characteristics in polluted soils and lands irrigated with wastewater (Mazhar et al., 2019; Mehmood et al., 2019).
The sixteenth century
Published in Michael J. O’Dowd, The History of Medications for Women, 2020
A large number of remedies were offered for: anointing; to add to baths; to apply in linen bags; as medicinal potions; and as electuaries, ointments, plasters, powders or trochiskes (lozenges). ‘Farthermore there be at the apothecaries trochiskes which help greatly in this case, as the trochiskes of kerabe [Ceratonia siliqua, carob contains mucilage, and is a demulcent and laxative] or ambar and the trochiskes of bole armoniake [Armenian earth containing alumina, chalk, silica and iron oxide, used to treat hemorrhages] which must be ministred a dram or more of either of them, with four or five sponefulles of plantayne water [Plantago asiatica or Plantago major, anti-inflammatory, and styptic]’.
Antimicrobial Properties of Traditional Medicinal Plants: Status and Potential
Published in Megh R. Goyal, Durgesh Nandini Chauhan, Plant- and Marine-Based Phytochemicals for Human Health, 2018
V. Duraipandiyan, T. William Raja, Naif Abdullah Al-Dhabi, Ignacimuthu Savarimuthu
Jaintia tribes live in the North Cachar Hills district of Assam, Northeast India. They use different TM plants for their ill-health, including boiled flowers and leaves of Adhatoda vasica with water. This decoction is consumed once daily to stop nosebleed, dysentery, and the vomiting of blood. Jaintia tribes use 2–3 drops of the water extract of Barleria cristata for skin infections. Cassia tora leaves, bark, and roots are used externally against skin diseases and leprosy. This plant destroys ringworms on the affected skin. Nicotiana tabaeccum is applied thrice daily to treat skin infections. Crushed leaves of Plantago major and raw milk are mixed equally and taken on an empty stomach for a week to cure jaundice. The plant leaf extract also cures toothache, earache, and bleeding gums.34
Stress memory in two generations of Plantago major from radioactive and chemical contaminated areas after the cessation of exposure
Published in International Journal of Radiation Biology, 2023
Nadezhda S. Shimalina, Vera N. Pozolotina, Natalya A. Orekhova
Greater plantain (Plantago major L.) is a perennial herbaceous polycarpic plant of the family Plantaginaceae Juss. The generation time for this plant species is July–August. The species is diploid (2n = 12), wind pollinated, and characterized by a high level of self-pollination and high seed productivity (van Dijk and van Delden 1981). These features make P. major a convenient species for transgenerational research. It reproduces mainly by seeds, the spread of which is involuntarily promoted by humans (anthropochoria) (Zhukova 1997). The seeds can be transported over considerable distances on shoes, clothes, and on the wheels of cars. P. major is well studied for its genetic and biochemical characteristics since it is used as a medicinal plant (van Dijk and van Delden 1981; Samuelsen 2000; Squirrell and Wolff 2001).
Contributions of Avicenna to surgery and anesthesiology
Published in Acta Chirurgica Belgica, 2020
Avicenna recommended surgery for severe conditions of ‘Bavasir’ (Hemorrhoids) and proposed different types of herbal medicines including ‘Zede varam’ (anti-inflammatory), ‘Zede vaja/dard’ (pain reliever), ‘Zede khoon rizi’ or ‘sayalan’ (anti-bleeding), ‘Zede tashanoj’ (antispasmodic) and ‘ailtiam aljuruh’ (wound-healing) to manage postsurgical complications. Substances like Anethum graveolens, Artemisia absinthium, Ocimum basilicum, Portulaca oleracea; fruits of Cocos nucifera, Ferula assa-foetida, Solanum melongena; seeds of Hypericum perforatum, Trigonella foenum-graecum; leaves of Myrtus communis and Plantago major, are all mentioned in the Canon [39].