The use of herbal medicinal products and supplements has increased tremendously over
the past three decades with not less than 80% of people worldwide relying on them for some …

This is the first of five review articles investigating dietary supplements (DS; includes herbs)
that now exceed over 50,000 in the Office of Dietary Supplement's “Dietary Supplement …

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, debilitating illness characterized by painful swelling
of the joints, inflammation of the synovial lining of the joints, and damage to cartilage and …

The human cytochrome P450 enzymes (P450s) catalyze oxidative reactions of a broad
spectrum of substrates and play a critical role in the metabolism of xenobiotics, such as …

Many efforts are being made to find biomolecules extracted from plants to be useful
therapeutic agents to replace the drugs traditionally used in clinical medicine with known …

Ethnopharmacological relevance In essentially every quadrant of the globe, many species of
genus Asarum are used as a common herbal medicine and appear in many formulas or …

Ephedrine, a sympathomimetic amine that exhibits several adrenaline actions, is a plant
alkaloid that is a common ingredient in several cold, asthma and narcolepsy treatment …

Background In view of the large consumption of herbal medicine in Africa countries, it is
likely that many adverse drugs reactions go unrecorded with either patients failing to present …

There are hundreds of books on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). They
cover all imaginable aspects of the subject, yet hardly any of them discuss the often-serious …

Abstract Ethnopharmacological relevance Although the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)
prescription of Danggui Shaoyao San (DSS) presents substantial clinical efficacy and …