Fisher Folks Usage of Medicinal Plants against Gynecological Disorders
Parimelazhagan Thangaraj in Phytomedicine, 2020
From the study a total of 50 medicinal plant species belonging to 47 genera and 33 families were identified and documented as herbal remedies for gynecological health care issues in the coastal areas of Tamil Nadu. The results of the present study are presented in Table 25.1. The plants are arranged in alphabetical scientific names. For each species, the correct botanical identity, vernacular name(s), family, part(s) used, mode of administration, and uses/ailments treated are enlisted. The common dosage form includes decoction, paste, powder, and vegetables. Most of the herbal remedies are taken orally. A decoction is prepared by boiling water or the herbs can be taken along with honey, milk, and ghee as adjuvants. Many remedies were prepared as a mixture of multiple ingredients.
Tasting History
Alan R. Hirsch in Nutrition and Sensation, 2023
By the time Ikeda gave his paper to the International Congress of Applied Chemistry in Washington, D.C. in September 1912, he believed that umami was a central taste in both Chinese and Japanese food culture. He stated: In Japan and China a large quantity of Laminaria japonica, a sort of brown sea-weed, is consumed as food. Its decoction is much employed to impart an agreeable taste to soup and other articles of food. It is briny on account of … common salt, it is sweet as a large quantity of mannite is present, but what makes it valuable it its strong glutamic taste.(Nakamura 2011)He went on to describe the long history of strong umami foods in Japan. “Impure flavoring substances for the glutamic taste were known of old. In this country, besides Laminary japonica, dried, prepared fishes, were used for this purpose in ancient times” (Nakamura 2011). Here Ikeda is referring to the importance of both konbu and katsuobushi in the development of Japanese cuisine and a unique Japanese palate.
Catalog of Herbs
James A. Duke in Handbook of Medicinal Herbs, 2018
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. In Biblical days, Solomon said “comfort me with apples for I am sick.”38 Surely they didn’t mean apricot pits in the Garden of Eden. As Milton276 says, “The fruit of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste brought death into the world, and all our woe.” The pits do contain laetrile-like compounds which can cure or kill, depending on dosage. Considered antidotal, antitussive, aphrodisiac, cyanogenetic, demulcent, emollient, expectorant, preventitive, sedative, tonic, vermifuge, vulnerary, the apricot is an element in folk medicines for anemia, asthma, bronchitis, catarrh, cold, constipation, cough, eyes, fertility (female), fever, heart, hemorrhage, inflammation, laryngitis, Puerperium, rheumatism, spasm, swellings, thirst, and tumors. The fruit is said to be a folk remedy for cancer. Medicinally, a paste, obtained by crushing the kernel, is used for inflammation of the eyes and is considered antispasmodic, demulcent, pectoral, sedative, vulnerary, and anthelmintic. Ginger and licorice combined with kernels make a confection used as a tussic and expectorant remedy. Another concoction made by fermentation is used as a prophylactic and tonic. Decoction of kernels made into a beverage is used for cough, asthma, and catarrhal ailments. Kernel juice is used for hemorrhages. In Chinese medicine, fruit of bitter almond is useful in heart disease.38 In Korea, the expectorant kernel is used to treat dry throat.
Herbal remedies used by traditional healers to treat haemorrhoids in Tabora region, Tanzania
Published in Pharmaceutical Biology, 2022
David Sylvester Kacholi, Halima Mvungi Amir
Most of the remedies were prepared by decoction (38.5%), followed by crushing (34.6%), pounding (11.5%), with the remaining methods accounting for 15.4% of the total (Figure 3). Likewise, the findings reported in Ghana (Appiah et al. 2018) and China (Hu et al. 2020) indicated decoction to be the most used method in preparing remedies. The decoction method might be associated with speeding up the extraction of active ingredients from the materials, detoxifying poisonous compounds and sterilizing used materials (Maema et al. 2019). Moreover, the remedy preparations involve using different ingredients and solvents. For instance, of the recorded curative plants, 38.5% are prepared directly without adding any component, 46.2% of the materials are prepared using water, and the remaining 15.3% are mixed with tea, honey, milk, porridge or sugar. Water is preferred in the preparations as it is not expensive and a more efficient solvent that can extract more soluble metabolites than milk. Additives such as honey, sugar, milk and butter are commonly used to increase the efficacy and potency of the remedies (Wubetu et al. 2017), making the formulation palatable by adding flavour and taste, and avoiding abdominal discomfort (Eshete and Molla 2021).
Anti-angiogenic activity of ShengMaBieJia decoction in vitro and in acute myeloid leukaemia tumour-bearing mouse models
Published in Pharmaceutical Biology, 2020
Mengya Wang, Bangyun Ma, Xingbin Dai, Hong Zhang, Huibo Dai, Jingyu Wang, Li Liu, Xuemei Sun
The six main ingredients in SMBJD (1 g/mL) were determined using an Agilent 1260 liquid chromatography system (Agilent Technologies, Palo Alto, CA). Briefly, 10 μL SMBJD was injected into the apparatus using an auto sampler. The chromatographic separation was achieved at a flow rate of 1 mL/min through an Agilent Zorbax SB-C18 column (4.6 × 250 mm, 5 μm). The mobile phase was composed of solvent A (0.1% phosphoric acid) and solvent B (acetonitrile). A linear gradient was set from 2% to 18% consisting of solvent B for 0–8 min, and this was followed by isocratic inflow of 18% solvent B for 8–20 min, 18–25% solvent B for 20–30 min, 25–45% solvent B for 30–40 min, 45–60% solvent B for 40–50 min, and 60–2% solvent B for 50–51 min. The separation temperature was maintained at a constant 40 °C with a detection wavelength of 230 nm. All major constituents in the decoction are shown in Figure 1.
Phytochemicals with protective effects against acute pancreatitis: a review of recent literature
Published in Pharmaceutical Biology, 2022
Yao Tang, Mingli Sun, Zhenning Liu
In the past two decades, although life-supporting medical device applications have improved the prognosis of severe AP to some extent, it is generally accepted that some synthetic drugs are greatly beneficial for the treatment of AP. Many traditional Chinese medicines have been widely used to treat AP in China (Li et al. 2017). Some traditional Chinese medicines including Chaiqin chengqi decoction (Wen et al. 2020), Dachengqi decoction (Sun et al. 2020), Da-Chai-Hu decoction (Zhao G et al. 2019) and Qingyi decoction (Su et al. 2019), exert therapeutic effects on AP. Although these research reports on the decoctions mentioned above are mainly from Eastern Asian countries, these studies show that these decoctions contribute to the improvement of the prognosis of patients with AP. What are thought to be the most important ingredients of the decoctions mentioned above are mostly from natural plants. Based on previous reports, many compounds from natural plants have been studied to investigate their ability to attenuate pancreatic cell damage in vivo or in vitro.
Related Knowledge Centers
- Ayurveda
- Concoction
- Ethanol
- Extract
- Glycerol
- Tincture
- Volatile Organic Compound
- Liquid–Liquid Extraction
- Herbal Medicine
- Kashayam