Traditional medicine practitioners TMPs have developed means of treating skin and soft tissue infections by using plant extract. In this study, four medicinal plants which are used for treating skin diseases were analysed, to determine their phytochemical constituents and antimic...
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Research Article10.9734/JOCAMR/2017/35036
Aim: This study was designed to evaluate the in vivo antimalarial activity of ethanolic extract of root bark of Salacia nitida in mice infected with Plasmodium bergei. Methods: Prophylactic and curative antimalarial activity of ethanolic extract of root bark of S. nitida was stud...
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Research Article10.9734/JOCAMR/2017/32655
Aims: To screen hexane, ethyl acetate and methanol fractions of the methanol extract of Spathodea campanulata leaves for secondary metabolites, to isolate and to characterize constituents of the ethyl acetate fraction using GC-MS and IR and to determine the antioxidant activities...
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Research Article10.9734/JOCAMR/2017/35156
Aim and Objective: The aim of this review was to provide a detailed concept to the researchers on antifertility activity of several plants inhibiting male and female fertility and may be developed into contraceptives. Despite of many medicinal plants have been claimed to prevent...
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Research Article10.9734/JOCAMR/2017/34632
Ahmed T. El-Olemy, Abdullah M. Al-Bedah, Ahmed H. Almosilhi, Jawaher A. Almusailhi, Asim A. Hussein, Mohamed Khalil, Tamer S. Aboushanab, Ibrahim M. Elsubai, Meshari S. Alqaed, Gazzaffi I. M. Ali, Sulaiman Al-Eidi & Naseem A. Qureshi·Journal of Complementary and Alternative Medical Research·2017
Background: Cupping therapy (Al-Hijamah) is a traditional therapy, supported and practised by people around the world since ancient times. Cupping therapy related to complementary and alternative medicine is associated with controversial, false beliefs and misconceptions. Objecti...
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Research Article10.9734/JOCAMR/2017/34835
The use of plants in treating diseases traditionally was found to be part of culture of the inhabitants in the study area. It was shown that the greater number of respondents (61, 50.8%) preferred the use of herbs when compared to the number who used synthetic (32, 26.6%) medicin...
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Research Article10.9734/JOCAMR/2017/33087
Background: Wireless telecommunication sources working with frequencies ranging from 0.9 to 2.5 GHz are still increasing rapidly. Among these are digitally enhanced cordless telecommunication (DECT) phones which have been considered to emit only a weak radiation when an active DE...
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Research Article10.9734/JOCAMR/2017/33849
Background: World Health Organization has estimated that 70-90 % of Africa’s population still relies on herbal remedies in order to meet their healthcare needs. Although the role of herbal medicines in the management of diabetes is an emerging health issue, use of herb remedies i...
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Research Article10.9734/JOCAMR/2017/33962
Aims: There are still several problems in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) therapeutic strategies, although its outcome has been changing better than before. We present the RA patient with atypical mycobacterium infection successfully treated with Traditional Herbal Medicine (THM), and...
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Research Article10.9734/JOCAMR/2017/33771
Background: Tuina massage is a traditional method used effectively in the treatment of various ailments in China since ancient time, and currently it is used around the world. Objective: This minireview aims to describe several aspects of Tuina massage an integral part of Traditi...
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Research Article10.9734/JOCAMR/2017/32941