Pharmacology

Nitric Oxide Is Key To Chinese Herbal Heart Formula

A University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston study suggests that ancient Chinese herbal formulas used primarily for cardiovascular indications including heart disease may produce large amounts of artery-widening nitric oxide. Nitric oxide is cruc ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 18 2009 - 11:14pm

Kudzu- Nuisance Vine May Turn Into Dietary Supplement

Kudzu has overgrown almost 10 million acres in the southeastern United States but imagine that  instead of being a nuisance it could sprout into a dietary supplement. Scientists in Alabama and Iowa are reporting the first evidence that root extracts from k ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 6:56pm

Discursive Factoids: The D-list

A number of stories caught my eye today and I wanted to write about each of them, but did not want to overwhelm the blog list like someone else who shall remain nameless (but happens to play rugby) does on occasion. The first unifying thread I noticed was ...

Article - Becky Jungbauer - Aug 28 2009 - 12:57pm

How Much Omega-3 Fatty Acid Should You Get To Help Prevent Heart Disease?

Numerous studies have outlined the benefits of omega-3 fatty acids but recommendations on how much you should get by people not trying to sell you something are less common.   A team of French scientists say they have found the dose of DHA- docosahexaenoic ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 31 2009 - 10:29am

Laticferous plants: Calotropis spp and others have great potential for development of medicines.

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Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 1 2009 - 5:37pm

Proteolytic enzymes and Cardenoloids from Calotropis spp have great potential for drug development.

Raheem   et. al.,(2007)isolated the   proteolytic enzymes from Calotropis procera (<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /> Sodom apple leaves) were extracted by aqueous infusion and characterised f ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 1 2009 - 5:40pm

Is Aloe vera good for health?

Aloe plant has over 112 species. Generally Aloe vera is projected as health tonic. However in some literature 4 species are mentioned out of which Aloe vera is declared toxic to eat or drink. All over the world lot of health products in the name of nature ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 2 2009 - 10:32pm

Vitamin C Linked To Human Skin Regeneration

Researchers at the University of Leicester and Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology in Portugal say a new discovery about the protective properties of vitamin C in cells from the human skin could lead to better skin regeneration. The work in the jo ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2009 - 11:31pm

Cassia fistula Linn. powder or decoction of the bark is administered in leprosy, jaundice, syphilis and heart diseases in folk medicine.

Scientific Name Cassia fistula Linn. Family Caesalpiniaceae (Fabaceae) Used Part Root. Distribution Area A deciduous medium-sized tree, occurring in deciduous forests throughout the greater part of India, ascending up to an altitude of 1,220 m in the sub- ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 14 2009 - 10:27pm

Hormone Therapy Linked To Increased Risk Of Heart Disease In Male Prostate Cancer Patients (Maybe)

Hormone therapy treatmenbt for men with advanced prostate cancer has been associated with an increased chance of developing various heart problems but some choices of therapy are less risky than others. ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 23 2009 - 2:44am