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Clinical Phytoscience

International Journal of Phytomedicine and Phytotherapy

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  1. Artesunate-amodiaquine (AS-AQ) is an antimalarial drug. It is associated with improved cure rates, accelerated response to therapy and delayed development of resistance. However, liver damage, neurotoxicity an...

    Authors: Mitchel Otieno Okumu, Francis Okumu Ochola, James Mucunu Mbaria, Laetitia Wakonyu Kanja, Daniel Waweru Gakuya, Alice Wairimu Kinyua, Paul Onyango Okumu and Stephen Gitahi Kiama
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2017 3:18
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  2. In traditional medicine, Acalypha wilkesiana is frequently used solely or as a composite part of many herbal preparations for therapeutic purposes. This study was therefore conducted to evaluate the effects of or...

    Authors: Kingsley Omage, Marshall A. Azeke, Jerry N. E. Orhue and Sylvia O. Iseghohi
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2017 3:15
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  3. The incidence of male infertility arising from male sexual dysfunction is high especially in the sub saharan Africa. African foods may hold promise to reverse this trend. The aim of this study therefore is to ...

    Authors: Kenneth Obinna Okolo, Orish Ebere Orisakwe and Iyeopu Minakiri Siminialayi
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2017 3:14
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  5. Black Tea is a widely consumed drink in the world. Evidence suggest Black Tea has stimulatory effect on humans. We investigated the effect of Black Tea on cognition using a cognitive test battery.

    Authors: Ashfique Rizwan, Artyom Zinchenko, Ceyona Özdem, Md. Sohel Rana and Md. Mamun Al-Amin
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2017 3:13
    Content type: Original Contribution Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in Clinical Phytoscience 2020 6:37

  6. In folk medicine leaves and stem of Bruguiera gymnorrhiza (L.) are commonly used to treat diarrhea, fever, diabetes, pain and a number of ailments. The present study was carried out to explore antioxidant, analge...

    Authors: Imtiaz Mahmud, Md. Nazmul Hasan Zilani, Nripendra Nath Biswas and Bishwajit Bokshi
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2017 3:11
    Content type: Original Contribution Published on:

  8. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of the herbal medicine Canephron®N, particularly regarding its ability to prevent recurrences of cystitis, associated with E.Coli in women of child-bearing age.

    Authors: Maksim Sabadash and Alexander Shulyak
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2017 3:9
    Content type: Original Contribution Published on:

  9. Until recently the generally accepted paradigm implied that urine of healthy people is sterile. In the meantime several studies have established also a microbiome in the bladder with many different species. Wh...

    Authors: Kurt G. Naber, Mikhail Kogan, Florian M. E. Wagenlehner, Roswitha Siener and André Gessner
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2017 3:8
    Content type: Review Published on:

  10. The dried fruits of the chaste tree Vitex agnus castus (VAC) were traditionally used by monks as a substitute for pepper and was therefore also called Monk’s pepper. For the last 50 years it is commercially provi...

    Authors: Dana Seidlova-Wuttke and Wolfgang Wuttke
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2017 3:6
    Content type: Review Published on:

  12. Cancer causes leading death in the world population due to exposure of various carcinogenic/mutagenic agents, radiation and life style. There are 2.6 million new cases diagnosed each year. Therefore, the objec...

    Authors: Arumugama Ponnan, Kavipriya Ramu, Murugan Marudhamuthu, Ramar Marimuthu, Kamalakannan Siva and Murugan Kadarkarai
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2017 3:5
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  13. Dennettia tripetala is a medicinal plant with in vitro antioxidant activities. It is capable of protecting the liver and kidney of rats from damage when administered prior to a single ...

    Authors: Sylvia O. Iseghohi and Noghayin E. J. Orhue
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2017 3:4
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  14. Trematodicidal action of Marattia fraxinea (Sm.) rhizome, extracts against adult Gastrothylax crumenifer and its morphological changes under light and scanning electron microscope was studied in this work. This p...

    Authors: Kalpana Devi Rajesh, Vasantha Subramani, Panneerselvam Annamalai, Rajesh Nakulan V., Jeyathilakan Narayanaperumal, Perumal Ponraj and Rajasekar Durai
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2017 3:3
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  15. The economic cost of and liver and kidney diseases in Sub Saharan Africa remain prohibitive, hence the quest for medicinal foods that can reverse hepato-renal damages. The aim of this study is to investigate t...

    Authors: Kenneth Obinna Okolo, Iyeopu Minakiri Siminialayi and Orish Ebere Orisakwe
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2017 3:2
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  16. Oxidative stress is found as one of the causes in various pathological conditions. It has been proven in many studies that medicinal plants have antioxidant constituents that help in coping with the oxidative ...

    Authors: Harsha Lad and Deepak Bhatnagar
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2017 3:1
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  17. Free radicals are highly reactive molecules generated during oxidation reactions which in turn initiate chain reactions resulting to cellular damage. There is substantial evidence implicating free radicals esp...

    Authors: Bashir Lawal, Oluwatosin K. Shittu, Florence I. Oibiokpa, Eustace B. Berinyuy and Hadiza Mohammed
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2016 2:23
    Content type: Review Published on:

  18. In the current study in vitro antioxidant, thrombolytic and in vivo analgesic, anti-inflammatory, anti-diarrheal activities of methanol extract of Ixora cuneifolia leaves (MEIL) were investigated.

    Authors: Tamanna Binte Huq, M. Sohanur Rahman, M. Akhlatun Nure, Md Solayman Hossain, Abeer Sarwar, Azharul Islam, Munny Das, Md Emdadul Haque, Tasnia Malik, Md Wali Reza, Bikash Chandra Adhikary, Minhazur Rahman, Taslima Begum and Mst Marium Begum
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2016 2:22
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  20. For many women, the monthly suffering induced by menstrual “cramps” is severe enough to profoundly disrupt their quality of life. In the case of primary dysmenorrhea, a condition related to premenstrual syndro...

    Authors: Johann Röhrl, Oliver Werz, Aldo Ammendola and Gerald Künstle
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2016 2:20
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  21. Garcinia kola is used in traditional medicine in various parts of Africa including Nigeria for the amelioration of hypertension, cough, diabetes, sickle cell anemia, bacterial and fung...

    Authors: Ene B. Adejor, Danladi A. Ameh, Dorcas B. James, Olumuyiwa A. Owolabi and Uche S. Ndidi
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2016 2:19
    Content type: Original contribution Published on:

  22. Senna alata (S. alata) has numerous pharmacological activities including anti-lipogenic effect in high-fat diet (HFD)-induced obese mice. The present study investigated the effect of S...

    Authors: Jarinyaporn Naowaboot and Pritsana Piyabhan
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2016 2:18
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in Clinical Phytoscience 2016 2:21

  23. A neurological disorder is becoming one of the major health problems worldwide. Synthetic drugs for neurological disorders often produce unwanted effects while traditional plant- derived drugs offer a unique s...

    Authors: Sakia Ferdousy, Md Atiar Rahman, Md Mamun Al-Amin, Jannatul Aklima and J. M. Kamirul Hasan Chowdhury
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2016 2:17
    Content type: Original contribution Published on:

  24. Drugs are an important cause of liver injury. The use of natural remedies for the treatment of liver diseases has a long history and medicinal plants are still used all over the world for this purpose. For the...

    Authors: Maryam Moossavi, Reyhane Hoshyar, Mina Hemmati, Ali Farahi and Hossein Javdani
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2016 2:16
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  25. We investigated effects of high doses of Jujube fruits and Saffron petals on biochemical and hematological biomarkers in rats. During 14 days treatment of herbs, mortality was not observed. No difference repor...

    Authors: Banafsheh Safizadeh, Reyhane Hoshyar, Mina Hemmati, Asghar Zarban and Roshanak Ebrahimi
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2016 2:15
    Content type: Short communication Published on:

  26. The therapeutic potentials of the methanolic extract of pineapple peel against alcohol – induced lung injury in male albino rats was investigated. GC – MS was used in characterizing secondary metabolites of th...

    Authors: Ochuko L. Erukainure, John A. Ajiboye, Oluwatoyin Y. Okafor, Emeka E. Okoro, Godfrey Asieba, Bolanle B. Sarumi, Sunday O. Adenekan and Moses Z. Zaruwa
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2016 2:14
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  27. Phytochemical screening, antioxidant and antimicrobial activities of hexane, ethylacetate and methanol crude extracts of Acalypha ciliata plant was studied in this work. This plant according to folk medicine has ...

    Authors: Oluwakayode Odeja, Christiana Ene Ogwuche, Elias Emeka Elemike and Grace Obi
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2016 2:12
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  29. Oxidative stress (OS) has been linked to the pathology of a variety of chronic and degenerative diseases. Medicinal plants contain bioactive compounds which are capable of preventing and fighting these disease...

    Authors: Anthonet Ndidi Ezejiofor, Nnaemeka Arinze Udowelle and Orish Ebere Orisakwe
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2016 2:11
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  30. Bioactive compounds in wild medicinal mushrooms are known to contain potent antimicrobial property. Hence, there is need to assess the antimicrobial properties of these wild mushrooms in order to adequately ut...

    Authors: Zeniyat Abubakar, Olusola Clement Ogidi and Victor Olusegun Oyetayo
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2016 2:8
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  31. Phytochemical derived from plant consisting of phenols and flavonoids possess antioxidant properties, which are useful to scavenge reactive oxygen species (ROS). The aim of the work is to ascertain the level o...

    Authors: Md Solayman Hossain, M. Sohanur Rahman, A. H. M. Rahmatullah Imon, Sinthia Zaman, A. S. M. Badrul Alam Siddiky, Milon Mondal, Abeer Sarwar, Tamanna Binte Huq, Bikash Chandra Adhikary, Taslima Begum, Asma Tabassum, Sumaiya Alam and Mst Marium Begum
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2016 2:10
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  32. Inhibition of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) related to Alzheimer’s disease as well as tyrosinase (TYR) relevant to Parkinson’s disease is an important approach to find novel drug...

    Authors: Ilkay Erdogan Orhan, Fatma Sezer Senol, Mehmet Zeki Haznedaroglu, Halil Koyu, Sinem Aslan Erdem, Gulderen Yılmaz, Mehmet Cicek, A. Emre Yaprak, Esin Ari, Nurgun Kucukboyaci and Gulnur Toker
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2016 2:9
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  33. While the most common pharmacological treatments for autoimmune renal pathologies are well studied, herbal remedies are often overlooked. In this study, the effect of the herbal treatment Canephron® N (CAN) in...

    Authors: Konstantin V. Sivak, Elena E. Lesiovskaya, Kira I. Stosman and Tatyana N. Savateeva-Lubimova
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2016 2:5
    Content type: Original contribution Published on:

  34. Acute upper respiratory tract infections (ARI) in children are quite common and often recurrent. Overuse of antibiotics must be avoided, and thus herbal remedies are a useful therapeutic option, as most ARIs c...

    Authors: Vera P. Vavilova, Dimitri Abramov-Sommariva, Hubert Steindl, Meinolf Wonnemann, Elena G. Ryzhova, Tatiana V. Rusova, Alexander A. Lebedenko and Ivan I. Kolchenko
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2016 2:6
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  35. Silymarin has long been used as a hepatoprotective remedy. Chronic toxicity studies in rodents have confirmed that silymarin has a very low toxicity. These data support its history as a safe medication in hepa...

    Authors: Claus Hellerbrand, Jörn M. Schattenberg, Philipp Peterburs, Anja Lechner and Reto Brignoli
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2016 2:7
    Content type: Review Published on:

  36. Viola odorata, widely distributed in Eastern and Western Himalaya region is extensively used in treatment of various respiratory ailment, calculous affections and nervous disorders. It...

    Authors: Shiv Shanker Gautam, Navneet Bithel, Sanjay Kumar, Deepak Painuly and Jashbir Singh
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2016 2:4
    Content type: Original contribution Published on:

  37. Finding a treatment for diabetes that does not have side effects has remained elusive. Among natural agents, much attention has been focused on phenolic compounds. For both their medicinal and nutritional valu...

    Authors: Mina Hemmati, Elham Serki, Maryam Gholami and Reyhane Hoshyar
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2016 2:3
    Content type: Original contribution Published on:

  38. Polygonum hydropiper L. is used by folk medicinal practitioners of Bangladesh. Juice of leaves is used in headache, pain, toothache, liver enlargement, gastric ulcer, dysentery, loss o...

    Authors: Arafat Rahman Oany, Al Ahad Siddikey, Mohammad Uzzal Hossain, Rafiad Islam and Abdullah-Al Emran
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2016 2:2
    Content type: Original contribution Published on:

  39. Estrogens have neuroprotective properties. The aim of the study was to assess the impact of an isopropanolic extract of Cimicifuga racemosa (iCR), 17ß-estradiol (E2), testosterone (T) and Tibolone’s 3α-OH meta...

    Authors: Petra Stute, Gunnar Habermann, Ludwig Kiesel, Hans-Heinrich Henneicke-von Zepelin and Susana Garcia de Arriba
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2016 2:1
    Content type: Original contribution Published on:

  43. Natural medicinal products have gained recognition worldwide in the treatment and control of diseases. One of the major concerns as they are used is the lack of adequate pharmacological and toxicological data ...

    Authors: Zelipha N. Kabubii, James Mbaria and Mbaabu Mathiu
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2015 1:9
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  45. More than 90 % of uncomplicated upper respiratory tract infections are caused by viruses, with a risk of developing subsequent bacterial infections in some patients. The risk of development of microbial compli...

    Authors: Svitlana Yaremchuk, Dmytro Zabolotny, Іgor Vareniuk, Nikolay Makarchuk and Stanislav Veselsky
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2015 1:8
    Content type: Original contribution Published on:

  46. Despite of increasing prevalence of bacterial resistance to antibiotics and possible adverse drug reactions (ADRs), uncomplicated lower urinary tract infections (uUTIs) are usually treated with antibiotics. Ca...

    Authors: Dmitry Ivanov, Dimitri Abramov-Sommariva, Kathrin Moritz, Herbert Eskötter, Tatyana Kostinenko, Liliya Martynyuk, Nikolay Kolesnik and Kurt G Naber
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2015 1:7
    Content type: Original Contribution Published on:

  47. Phytochemical screening, antimicrobial and antioxidant activities of the hexane, ethylacetate and methanol crude extracts of Senna occidentalis (L.) leaves were studied in this work. The ...

    Authors: Oluwakayode Odeja, Grace Obi, Christiana Ene Ogwuche, Elias Emeka Elemike and Yemi Oderinlo
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2015 1:6
    Content type: Original contribution Published on:

    The Retraction Note to this article has been published in Clinical Phytoscience 2016 2:13

  48. Silymarin derived from the milk thistle plant “Silybum marianum” is composed of four major flavonolignans. Clinical as well as experimental studies indicate hepatoprotective effects of silymarin. However, the ...

    Authors: Abdo Mahli, Andreas Koch, Barbara Czech, Philipp Peterburs, Anja Lechner, Jutta Haunschild, Martina Müller and Claus Hellerbrand
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2015 1:5
    Content type: Original contribution Published on:

  49. Asthma and COPD are chronic inflammatory respiratory diseases affecting millions of people worldwide and increasing in prevalence. Current treatment options for both conditions aim to alleviate symptoms, impro...

    Authors: Rebecca Clarke, Fionnuala T Lundy and Lorcan McGarvey
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2015 1:4
    Content type: Review Published on:

  50. Struvite also called as infection stones occur in the urinary system of humans particularly the women community. The present work was aimed to grow struvite crystals in-vitro using single diffusion gel growth ...

    Authors: B. Bindhu, A. S. Swetha and K. Veluraja
    Citation: Clinical Phytoscience 2015 1:3
    Content type: Original contribution Published on:
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