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ISBN-10: 9241545178

ISBN-13: 9789241545174

A set of 28 monographs protecting the standard keep watch over and conventional and scientific makes use of of chosen medicinal crops. crops have been chosen for inclusion at the foundation in their common use, really in international locations that depend seriously on medicinal crops to fulfill basic well-being care wishes. Monographs are supplied for a few phytomedicines generally used to regard such universal court cases as diarrhoea, constipation, headache, urge for food loss, sleep problems, fatigue, and delicate respiration, gastrointestinal, and dermis issues. extra scientific purposes assessed diversity from the lipid-lowering strength of garlic powder arrangements, during the attainable antiplasmodial task of Fructus Bruceae, to the function of curcumin in selling peptic ulcer therapeutic and decreasing the linked stomach pain.

In getting ready and publishing those monographs, WHO goals to inspire standardized clinical ways to making sure the protection, caliber and efficacy of medicinal crops and their items. The monographs also are meant to advertise foreign harmonization within the quality controls and use of natural drugs and to function types for the advance of nationwide formularies. Draft monographs have been finalized following evaluation by means of over a hundred specialists in forty nations. a few 1400 references to the literature are included.

Each monograph follows a typical structure, with info provided in components. the 1st supplies pharmacopoeial summaries for caliber insurance, botanical beneficial properties, distribution, id checks, purity necessities, chemical assays, and energetic or significant chemical components. a bit on definition presents the Latin binomial pharmacopoeial identify, crucial criterion in caliber coverage. Latin pharmacopoeial synonyms and vernacular names, indexed within the part on synonyms and chosen vernacular names, are these names utilized in trade or via neighborhood consumers.

The moment a part of every one monograph starts with an inventory of dosage varieties and of medicinal makes use of classified as makes use of supported through scientific info, makes use of defined in pharmacopoeias and in conventional platforms of drugs, and makes use of defined in people medication, yet no longer but supported through experimental or scientific info. each one monograph additionally contains an intensive evaluation of obtainable information on experimental and scientific pharmacology, by means of details on contraindications, corresponding to sensitivity or hypersensitive reaction, warnings, precautions, quite in such targeted teams as pregnant and breast-feeding girls, opposed reactions, and dosage. an inventory of references concludes the monograph.

Plants lined in quantity 1:
Bulbus Allii Cepae
Bulbus Allii Sativi
Aloe
Aloe Vera Gel
Radix Astragali
Fructus Bruceae
Radix Bupleuri
Herba Centellae
Flos Chamomillae
Cortex Cinnamomi Rhizoma Coptidis
Rhizoma Curcumae Longae
Radix Echinaceae
Herba Echinaceae Purpureae
Herba Ephedrae
Folium Ginkgo
Radix Ginseng
Radix Glycyrrhizae
Radix Paeoniae Semen Plantaginis
Radix Platycodi
Radix Rauwolfiae
Rhizoma Rhei
Folium Sennae
Fructus Sennae
Herba Thymi
Radix Valerianae
Rhizoma Zingiberis

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Garlic chemistry: Stability of S-(2-propenyl)-2-propene-1sulfinothioate (allicin) in blood, solvents and simulated physiological fluids. Journal of agriculture and food chemistry, 1995, 43:2332–2338. 23. Weinberg DS et al. Identification and quantification of organosulfur compliance markers in a garlic extract. Journal of agriculture and food chemistry, 1993, 41:37–41. 24. Reuter HD, Sendl A. Allium sativum and Allium ursinum: Chemistry, pharmacology, and medicinal applications. In: Wagner H, Farnsworth NR, eds.

Burm. f. The dried juice occurs in dark chocolate-brown usually opaque masses; fracture, dull waxy, uneven, and frequently conchoidal (2, 6). Cape Aloe, derived from A. ferox Mill. and its hybrids with A. africana Mill. and A. spicata Baker The dried juice occurs in dark brown or greenish brown glassy masses, often covered with a yellowish powder; in thin fragments it is transparent and exhibits a yellowish, reddish brown or greenish tinge; fracture, smooth, even, and glassy (2, 6). Organoleptic properties Aloe is marketed as opaque masses that range from reddish black to brownish black to dark brown in colour.

79. Bordia A et al. Effect of essential oil of onion and garlic on experimental atherosclerosis in rabbits. Atherosclerosis, 1977, 26:379–386. 80. Bordia A, Verma SK. Effect of garlic on regression of experimental atherosclerosis in rabbits. Artery, 1980, 7:428–437. 81. Mohammad SF et al. Isolation, characterization, identification and synthesis of an inhibitor of platelet function from Allium sativum. Federation proceedings, 1980, 39:543A. 82. Castro RA et al. Effects of garlic extract and three pure components from it on human platelet aggregation, arachidonate metabolism, release reaction and platelet ultrastructure.

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