Experience Of Traditional Medicine Research Articles

АКТУАЛЬНЫЕ ВОПРОСЫ ХИМИЧЕСКОГО СОСТАВА, БИОЛОГИЧЕСКОГО ДЕЙСТВИЯ И ПЕРСПЕКТИВЫ МЕДИЦИНСКОГО ПРИМЕНЕНИЯ ЛИСТЬЕВ ЗИЗИФУСА НАСТОЯЩЕГО

Cultivated food plants can be one of the available sources of effective and safe herbal remedies. These, in particular, include real jujube (Ziziphus jujuba Mill.) - a shrub or small tree of the Rhamnaceae family. Today, Ziziphus jujuba real grows in many countries of the world, is widely distributed in the countries of South and East Asia, cultivated in the Krasnodar and Stavropol Territories and is known primarily as a source of tasty fruits that are eaten and, according to various sources, have a wide range of biological properties. activity. However, along with the fruits of this jujube, the leaves of this plant are of scientific interest, which have many years of experience in traditional medicine for the treatment of inflammatory diseases, pathologies of the respiratory and urinary system, are used in the complex therapy of hypertension. In recent years, Ziziphus jujuba leaves have increasingly become the object of research in relation to the study of the chemical composition, the search for ways to process them into medicinal products and the formation of an evidence base for their use in medicine. The conducted information and analytical search made it possible to generalize modern data on the chemical composition and the most studied types of biological activity of Ziziphus jujuba leaves to date. According to the results of the study, it was revealed that phenolic compounds and triterpene acids of Ziziphus jujuba leaves, as well as the biological effects associated with these compounds, have been studied to the greatest extent. The data obtained allow us to determine the prospects and suggest ways to use this raw material to create antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, wound healing, hepatropic and a number of other types of action.

KAJIAN ETNOMEDISIN DAN PEMANFAATAN TANAMAN OBAT PADA DESA TERPILIH KECAMATAN SECANG KABUPATEN MAGELANG

Traditional medicine is a mixture of various types of plant parts in an area, so that local wisdom related to traditional medicine needs to be studied, preserved, and developed. This requires supporting data, namely in the form of written documentation and documented images with the aim of knowing various types of medicinal plants, types of diseases, how to mix, and how to treat them. This type of research is a descriptive qualitative research with snowball sampling technique. The inclusion criteria in this study, among others: the residents of the Secang District who have sufficient knowledge and experience in traditional medicine, are willing to be informants in the study, people who are over 30 years old. The results showed that the community in 5 villages, Secang District, Magelang Regency used 107 species of medicinal plants from 54 families. The plant parts used are leaves, stems, roots, flowers, seeds, rhizomes, fruits, tubers, all plants, bark, wood, and fruit skins. The results of the above calculations obtained sample results for 5 villages, which amounted to 387 respondents with a 95% confidence level. ICF analysis is used to determine the level of homogeneity between the information provided by the respondents. In this study, there were a total of 80 types of disease, based on the results of the ICF calculation, the value that was close to 1 was 45 efficacy, while the ICF value that was close to 0 was 35 efficacy

Available measures counteraction of COVID-19 from experience of traditional medicine

Available measures counteraction of COVID-19 from experience of traditional medicine

Study of analgesic and anti-inflammatory activity of dry extract from sakhalin willow shoots

One of the important treatment landscape widely used for the various disease’s management is phytotherapy, or treatment with herbal medicines. Phytotherapy is used as an independent type of treatment in most cases, and in combination with other drugs as additional treatment. The pain and inflammation control continue as long as there is humanity itself. With old experience of traditional medicine know that Salicaceae have a pronounced anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects. The pharmacological study of the dry extract from Sakhalin willow shoots – the study of analgesic and anti-inflammatory activities in different pharmacological models – was the aim of this work.
 The analgesic and anti-inflammatory activity of the standardized dry extract from Sakhalin willow shoots (DESWS) was experimentally researched. The study of pharmacological activities of DESWS was carried out at the Educational and Scientific Institute of Applied Pharmacy of the National University of Pharmacy (Kharkov). The effect of DESWS on the course of the inflammatory process was studied in a model of carrageenan edema. Analgesic activity was studied in a model of thermal irritation in white male rats.
 The study of anti-inflammatory activity in rats on a model of carrageenan edema showed that an effective dose of the studied extract was 30 mg/kg. The greatest reduction in paw edema in rats on the model of carrageenan edema in the first hour of the experiment was observed in the group of animals treated with DESWS at a dose of 30 mg/kg. The anti-inflammatory activity of DESWS was 53.74%, but it was slightly inferior than in the reference drug Diclofenac.
 It was found that DESWS also shows pronounced analgesic properties at a dose of 30 mg/kg during the first and second hours of the experiment in the model of the limb’s thermal irritation «Hot Plate» in rats. After 120 minutes of experiment the studied activity didn’t change significantly and remained at the level 62.6%. The analgesic effect of DESWS was inferior to antinociceptive activity of the reference drug Metamizole sodium and superior to the studied activity of the reference drug Aspirin.
 Thus, the dry extract from the Sakhalin willow shoots can affect both pain and inflammation, and it is a potential remedy for further pharmacological research.

Inventory and ethnobotanical assessment of plant species in Lagos State University, Ojo campus, Lagos, Nigeria

Inventory and ethnobotanical assessment of plant species growing on Lagos State University (LASU) Ojo main campus, Lagos State, Nigeria, were carried out. The aim was to document the vegetation composition and ethnobotanical uses of plants in the study area with a view to developing strategies for their conservation. Plant species with their frequency of occurrence were compiled and their representatives were collected for proper identification. Ethnobotanical assessment was carried out through oral interviews of herbalists, herb sellers and others with experience in traditional medicine. A total of 35 plant species belonging to 25 families were recorded from the survey. Poaceae has the highest number of species; Anacardiaceae, Asteraceae, Asparagaceae, Combretaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Malvaceae and Moraceae were all represented with two species each while the remaining 17 families were represented with one species each. Murraya paniculata recorded the highest frequency of occurrence within the study area with 165 individual plants followed by Ficus benjamina with 134 plants, then Ixora coccinea with 121 plants and Terminalia ivorensis with 103 plants. Anarcardium occidentale, Araucaria heterophylla and Ficus carica recorded the lowest frequency of occurrence with two plants each. The trees were the dominant plant habit (46%) followed by the shrubs (23%), grasses (17%) and herbs (14%). The plant species identified are of significant ethnobotanical uses ranging from food to medicine and ornamental. Effective conservation strategies for these plants include enacting laws against indiscriminate tree cutting, encouraging afforestation, proper maintenance of the parks and gardens and establishment of medicinal plant farms.

Failure of diterpenes from Jatropha curcas to induce mutation in Salmonella typhimurium TA98 and TA100

The experience of traditional Chinese medicine affords a valuable approach in the search for new antineoplastic drugs as illustrated by indirubin from Dang Gui Lu Hui Wan, irisquinone from Iris lactea pallasii and Zhuling polysaccharide from Polyporus umbellata. The application of chemotaxonomic principles to related species of those plants used in folk medicine has also provided an approach which can be used successfully for the development of new drugs. The studies of Cephalotaxus hainanesis and Camptotheca accuminata provide two typical examples in this regard. One must be aware that the experience of traditional Chinese medicine cannot be used without elaborate efforts in many cases. For example, the ancient Chinese ideograph for spleen does not mean spleen in the modern sense, instead it refers to the entire gastrointestinal system. Similarly, the ancient ideograph for kidney does not mean kidney in the modern sense, and can mean the entire endocrine system. Therefore, for the reasonable utilization of traditional Chinese medicine, one must be familiar with its basic concepts and terminology. In addition, one must bear in mind that the term “tumor” in folk medicine is applied to a very wide range of pathological manifestations which sometimes have no relation to the various forms of neoplasia. It is important for drugs and treatments to be analyzed carefully in modern terms to eliminate the false and to utilize the true information. Only in such a way can the experience of traditional medicine be integrated into modern medicine and make its contribution in the advancement of health care in the world.