abstract：:A polysaccharide fraction of Saccharum officinarum was tested for its effects on carbohydrate and lipid metabolism in normal rats and those fed a high sugar diet. Feeding with the high sugar diet induced an elevation of serum glucose and significant accumulation of lipid peroxides in the serum and liver. The accumulat...

journal_title：Journal of ethnopharmacology

authors： Hikino H,Takahashi M,Konno C,Ishimori A,Kawamura T,Namiki T

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antihepatotoxic effects of gingerols, shogaols, diarylheptanoids and related analogues were assessed utilizing carbon tetrachloride- and galactosamine-induced cytotoxicity in primary cultured rat hepatocytes. Most congeners exhibited significant actions in these assay methods. The carbon tetrachloride assay appear...

journal_title：Journal of ethnopharmacology

authors： Hikino H,Kiso Y,Kato N,Hamada Y,Shioiri T,Aiyama R,Itokawa H,Kiuchi F,Sankawa U

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contraceptive activity and the correlated endocrine alterations of an aqueous extract of the leaves of Dieffenbachia amoena were investigated. In female Wistar rats the extract, given for 4 days during the estrous cycle, induced significant variations of luteinizing hormone (LH), follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), pr...

journal_title：Journal of ethnopharmacology

authors： Costa de Pasquale R,Ragusa S,Circosta C,Forestieri AM

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pharmacological screening was conducted on 101 methanolic extracts from 31 medicinal plants chosen among the more widely used plants in Rwandese traditional medicine. Twenty four extracts from 13 plants have shown spasmolytic properties, while 35 extracts from 15 plants contain spasmodic active principles. Ten extra...

journal_title：Journal of ethnopharmacology

authors： Chagnon M

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Buddleja species play a minor role in the ethnopharmacology of several areas of the world where they are indigenous. Phytochemical investigation of the genus has been somewhat neglected but a picture is emerging of the type of constituents which are present in reasonable quantities, namely iridoid and flavonoid glycos...

journal_title：Journal of ethnopharmacology

authors： Houghton PJ

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Montanoa tomentosa (zoapatle) is a Mexican plant popularly used for antifertility purposes and with promising characteristics for the development of a new oral contraceptive agent with uteroevacuant properties. In a previous pharmacological report we established the ambivalent myometrial response to zoapatle leaves aq...

journal_title：Journal of ethnopharmacology

authors： Bejar E,Enriquez R,Lozoya X

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility that phenylalkylamines (cathinone and cathine) of khat, like amphetamines, are amine oxidase inhibitors with clinical significance is evaluated. Results show that khat chewing induces a significant increase in blood pressure, body temperature and urinary catecholamines in khat naive subjects. On the ot...

journal_title：Journal of ethnopharmacology

authors： Nencini P,Amiconi G,Befani O,Abdullahi MA,Anania MC

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The knowledge and skills of Ethiopian traditional healers in Gondar region on the pharmaceutical aspects of their practice were assessed using a questionnaire. Of the 86 healers interviewed, only 83 gave responses good enough to be considered in the analysis of results. It was shown that the healers obtained their dru...

journal_title：Journal of ethnopharmacology

authors： Abebe W

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From various extracts of Euphorbia acaulis , the n-hexane fraction showed marked anti-inflammatory activity in carrageenan induced oedema in rats and mice as compared to phenylbutazone and was equipotent in adrenal- ectomised rats. In chronic models of formaldehyde and adjuvant arthritis, its anti-arthritic activity w...

journal_title：Journal of ethnopharmacology

authors： Singh GB,Kaur S,Satti NK,Atal CK,Maheshweri JK

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Centaurea phyllocephala Boiss. has been used in folkloric medicine as an antidiabetic agent. Present investigations on various extracts of C. phyllocephala revealed that basal plasma glucose concentration and plasma glucose response to glucose load were either elevated or unchanged by the i.v. administration of these ...

journal_title：Journal of ethnopharmacology

authors： Twaij HA,Kery A,Al-Khazraji NK

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wound treatment practices of the Aztecs are discussed. The use of concentrated maguey sap (Agave ssp.) was widely dispersed and has persisted in folk medicine. A possible reason may be that it is effective. Laboratory analysis of maguey syrup indicates that its utilization as a remedy by ancient and modern Mesoamerica...

journal_title：Journal of ethnopharmacology

authors： Davidson JR,Ortiz de Montellano BR

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The procedure for the preparation of Anna Pavala Sindhooram (APS), a drug based on the concepts of Indian medicine for the prevention and reversal of the atherosclerotic disease process is described in detail. The uniformity in the composition of samples of the drug obtained in 10 batches, prepared over a period of 5 ...

journal_title：Journal of ethnopharmacology

authors： Shanmugasundaram KR,Seethapathy PG,Shanmugasundaram ER

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies performed with Opuntia streptacantha sap in three different animal species using several experimental conditions are described. The Opuntia sap induced hypoglucemic effects when orally administered to intact animals under induced states of moderate increase of blood sugar. In normoglucemic and pancreatectomize...

journal_title：Journal of ethnopharmacology

authors： Ibañez-Camacho R,Meckes-Lozoya M,Mellado-Campos V

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The botanical remedies reported in Heyne's De Nuttige Planten van Nederlandsch-Indië (Volumes 1--IV, 1913--1922) have been screened out of economic botanical context, translated into English and summarized as a table of names, therapeutic indications, plant parts, and available details of preparation and use. ...

journal_title：Journal of ethnopharmacology

authors： Hirschhorn HH

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guaraná is considered an ideal crop for supplementing the incomes of small peasant farmers in the Amazon basin. A fast-growing perennial, guaraná can be planted in the midst of manioc crops, allowing the formation of extensive orchards in the place of regenerating scrub once the manioc has been harvested. Traditional ...

journal_title：Journal of ethnopharmacology

authors： Henman AR

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crude ethanolic (50%) extracts of five species of Clausena exhibited varying degrees of spasmolytic activity on the isolated guinea-pig ileum preparation. The aerial parts of Clausena pentaphylla had maximum activity. Its active principle clausmarin-A, a novel coumarin terpenoid, was evaluated in detail for spasmolyti...

journal_title：Journal of ethnopharmacology

authors： Patnaik GK,Dhawan BN

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ancient and modern medicinal uses of the castor bean plant, Ricinus communis L. (Euphorbiaceae), in about fifty countries worldwide, has been surveyed. The different medicinal uses are grouped separately in relation to their pharmacological action, whether real or presumed, within the various medical specialties. ...

journal_title：Journal of ethnopharmacology

authors： Scarpa A,Guerci A

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biochemical analysis of a selected sample of the Hausa (northern Nigeria) medicinal flora is presented in order to assess potential chemotherapeutic values. Laboratory investigation, supplemented by previously published phytochemical constituent analyses of pertinent taxa, suggests that a number of disorders can be ef...

journal_title：Journal of ethnopharmacology

authors： Etkin NL

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research suggests that, in addition to the well-documented occurrence of significant quantities of cocaine and related alkaloids in a limited number of species, the genus Erythroxylon will prove to be a rich source of tropane alkaloids. These bases are esters of a range of acids with tropine, 3 alpha, 6 beta-di...

journal_title：Journal of ethnopharmacology

authors： Evans WC

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracts of several Southern African plants which have been used in folk remedies have been prepared, and the extracts were tested in a variety of experimental tumour test-systems. Raphionacme hirsuta and Cheilanthes contracta have been used in African anticancer medicines. Extracts of these plants showed antitumor ac...

journal_title：Journal of ethnopharmacology

authors： Charlson AJ

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oral tradition for communication in Africa is stressed as well as the secrecy of the treatments with plants by traditional medicine-men. This makes it difficult to obtain more exact information on all the different aspects of traditional medicine. Nevertheless, some data have been collected in the Francophone coun...

journal_title：Journal of ethnopharmacology

authors： Lantum DN

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review article focuses on the on-going use of plant hallucinogens, especially various Banisteriopsis species, among contemporary aboriginal populations of Ecuador. It surveys the evidence of prehistoric ayahuasca use by interpretations of Ecuadorian archaeological remains, and surveys in detail the use and belief...

journal_title：Journal of ethnopharmacology

authors： Naranjo P

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coca leaves (Erythroxylum coca Lamarck) and powder (5 - 10 g) were taken orally by human subjects in the same way as South American natives do. The cocaine, as measured by mass fragmentography, was immediately detected in the blood, reached peak concentrations from 10 - 150 ng/ml plasma at 0.38 - 1.95 hours, and persi...

journal_title：Journal of ethnopharmacology

authors： Homstedt B,Lindgren JE,Rivier L,Plowman T

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00