The use of medicinal plants as a fundamental component of the African traditional
healthcare system is perhaps the oldest and the most assorted of all therapeutic systems. In …

Rooibos (Aspalathus linearis (Brum. f) Dahlg.) and honeybush (Cyclopia Vent. species) are
popular indigenous South African herbal teas enjoyed for their taste and aroma. Traditional …

Mangiferin is a plant natural polyphenol of C-glycosylxanthone structure and various
pharmacological activities. It can be found in many plant species, among which the mango …

Honeybush tea (Cyclopia spp.), one of the traditional South African herbal teas with a long
history of regional use, remained a cottage industry until the mid-1990s when researchers …

A high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) method coupled with diode-array
detection (DAD) was optimized for the qualitative analysis of aqueous extracts of Cyclopia …

Cyclopia subternata plants are traditionally used for the production of the South African
herbal tea, honeybush, and recently as aqueous extracts for the food industry. A C …

Xanthones are important chemical class of bioactive products that confers therapeutic
benefits. Of several xanthones, mangiferin is known to be distributed widely across several …

The chemoprotective properties of unfermented and fermented rooibos (Aspalathus linearis)
and honeybush (Cyclopia intermedia) herbal teas, and green and black teas (Camellia …

The aim of this study was to develop a novel nanostructured lipid carriers (NLCs) system to
improve ocular bioavailability of mangiferin (MGN) for the potential treatment of cataract. The …

The possible mechanism of photoprotection by polyphenolic extracts of honeybush and the
two most abundant polyphenols found in honeybush, hesperidin and mangiferin were …