... sewage treatment plants, and species ofplants which are good scavengers of heavy metal pollutants in soils Let us cite just a few examples of sources of seeds of rare and endangered plants 15 Risks ... excess of auxin will often result in a proliferation of roots, while an excess of cytokinin may yield shoots A balance of both auxin and cytokinin will often produce an unorganized growth of cells ... and Sell Heirloom Seeds of Rare and Endangered Medicinal and Other Plants Because of the loss of crop diversity with the advent of the green revolution and the breeding of crop varieties grown...
... on the use ofmedicinalplants from primary and secondary growth by the Runa of eastern lowland Ecuador Journal of Ethnobiology 12, 141±152 Le, T C (1997) Conservation ofMedicinalPlants under ... Global importance of 304 T Van On et al / Biological Conservation 97 (2001) 295±304 medicinalplants In: Akerele, O., Heywood, V., Synge, H (Eds.), Conservation ofMedicinalPlants Cambridge University ... frequency of occurrence of Important Medicinal Species in each of six classi®cation groups, and modal abundance of individuals per 0.05 transect is given below Three other Important Medicinal...
... CONSTITUENTS OFMEDICINALPLANTS Functional groups Another feature of organic compounds is the presence of functional groups These are groups of atoms attached to carbon chains or rings which are often ... hydroxystilbene 24 • THE CONSTITUENTS OFMEDICINALPLANTS Hydroxystilbenes are found in a variety of plants, many unrelated They are a prominent component of many species of the Polygonaceae family (Rheum, ... ‘Pharmacokinetics of polyphenolic compounds’, in Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants, Vol 3, Oryx Press, Phoenix 26 • THE CONSTITUENTS OFMEDICINALPLANTS Ammon, H and Wahl, M 1990, ‘Pharmacology of Curcuma...
... discovering the meaning of huge numbers of plant names or constructing names for new plants The author has included some of the views of other writers on the meanings of certain names but accepts that ... the The NamesofPlants examples above The cleaning-up of such names was a feature of the Victorian period, during which our common plant names were formalized and reduced in number Some of the ... sexuality ofplants but, although he used names for plantsof beauty, use or oddity, he did not try to name everything To the ancients, as to the people of earlier civilizations of Persia and China, plants...
... Inside Cover MEDICINALPLANTSOF MYANMAR Compiled by MINISTRY OF HEALTH DEPARTMENT OF TRADITIONAL MEDICINE Contents Kin-mun-gyin Ma-ya-gyi Kyet-thun-ni ... repens Wight & Arn (wyifwdkif=reef;) Zizyphus jujuba Lamk (=refrm ZD;csOf) Ipomoea aquatica Forsk MONOGRAPH MEDICINALPLANTSOF MYANMAR Acacia concinna DC Mimosaceae Myanmar name : Kin - mun - ... jaundice, insomnia and loss of concentration 300 ml per day of decoction is used for child in indigestion Expressed juice of fresh leaf is orally used in insect bite Ash of fruit is externally used...
... potentials ofmedicinal flora of the Pacific Rim was thus born, and I undertook the laborious task of writing this extensive work on 36 families ofmedicinalplantsof great topicality Each of the 173 medicinal ... the medicinalplantsof the Pacific Rim My hope is that the readers of this book will appreciate the wealth of knowledge and information that is available in the field of drug research from medicinal ... discovery of drugs from these plants The pharmacological study ofmedicinalplantsof the Pacific Rim has only recently begun to be useful to researchers and drug manufacturers who see in it a source of...
... treatment of acute or chronic synovitis in clinical studies or animal models of arthritis As a first step, we therefore wanted to investigate the efficacy and mode of action of a mixture of standardized ... by subcutaneous injection of cc of filtered air MSU crystals were prepared as described by McCarty and Faires [20] On day 6, mg of sterile crystals in ml of PBS or ml of PBS alone was injected ... concentration of μM Reactions were performed in a final volume of 25 μl, containing 12.5 μl of × SYBR Green PCR Master Mix (Applied Biosystems), μl of each target primer (2 μl in total), μl of cDNA...
... potentials ofmedicinal flora of the Pacific Rim was thus born, and I undertook the laborious task of writing this extensive work on 36 families ofmedicinalplantsof great topicality Each of the 173 medicinal ... the medicinalplantsof the Pacific Rim My hope is that the readers of this book will appreciate the wealth of knowledge and information that is available in the field of drug research from medicinal ... discovery of drugs from these plants The pharmacological study ofmedicinalplantsof the Pacific Rim has only recently begun to be useful to researchers and drug manufacturers who see in it a source of...