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The 'What' and 'Why' of Herbal Medicine Analysis
Modernizing the old
art of plant medicine practice requires
addressing the three interrelated issues of ‘quality’,
‘safety’, and ‘efficacy’. The 'pharmaceutical
quality' of plant medicines is
critically important as it does also affect the efficacy
and safety of these drugs....More
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HOMEOPATHY TO BE
BANNED BY THE NHS
Homeopathy is among the
Complementary &
Alternative Medicine
(CAM) practices that
struggle to maintain
their market share in
the 21st
Century heath care
systems. The reason is
simple – Acute lack of
efficacy and/or
scientific evidence to
justify their use.
Homeopathy’s
core principles such as
treating
patients by “highly
diluted drug substances”
and the
“like cures like"
argument have always
been questioned by
pharmacologists. Now the
NHS is set to ban it
altogether.
It has been said that
the NHS
spent about £600,000 on
homeopathic treatment
in the last 5 years – A
very small figure but
still a saving of
funding that stretches
to the limit. Follow
the news @
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/nhs-homeopathy-ban-placebo-not-evidence-based-spending-health-government-latest-prescriptions-a7852566.html
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In Recognition
of the Most-Cited Paper
of 2014 Published in
Comprehensive
Reviews in Food Science
and Food Safety
“Curcumin
and Liver Disease: from
Chemistry to Medicine”
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Food Technologists
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Pharma Europe 2017
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separate tracks on June
26-28, 2017; Madrid,
Spain
Welcome message by Dr
Solomon Habtemariam
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 Could
we really use Ale vera
food supplements to
treat diabetes?
Read our commentary on
the listing of Aloe vera
and related products as
drugs by the Diabetes UK
website.
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2017
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 2-Arylazetidines
as ligands for nicotinic
acetylcholine receptors
new ligands for
nicotinic acetylcholine
receptors
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"Going
Back to the Good Old
Days: The Merit of Crude
Plant Drug Mixtures in
the 21st
Century".
Read our review article
on drug targeting by
single chemical entities
and polypharmacology
principles - The case of
complex diseases of our
century.
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 Ensete
superbum is a
popular Indian medicinal
plant employed for the
treatment of numerous
diseases but
specifically for
diabetes kidney stones,
painful urination,
urinary calci and
leucorrhoea. We studied
this plant in the last
five years and our first
paper on the potential
mechanisms of its
antidiabetic effects
is now published...
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 As
part of the "molecules"
2016 special issue
on the terpenoids class
of compounds, our
invited extensive
review article (38
pages) entitled “The
Chemistry and
Pharmacology of Citrus
Limonoids” is now
published. The full-text
article is available for
free:
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In
our continued effort to
look for novel drugs for
Alzheimer’s disease, we
have synthesised and
evaluated several
berberine analogues
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This is one more example
of how nature can still
be used as a source of
medicine to treat human
diseases. The scientific
evidence for the
potential use of
berberine for this
chronic disease is
scrutinised….
Berberine and
inflammatory bowel
disease: A concise
review
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 Rosemary
Diterpenes
for the Alzheimer's
brain...
Where is the evidence?
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Related article:
Rutin may help fight
Alzheimer's disease -
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A natural
compound called rutin
may shade light on
diabetes therapy
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The Site Owner
Dr Habtemariam BSc,
MSc, PhD, PGDipMS, FRSC, … As a world-class scientist in the field of natural products’
chemistry (phytochemistry) and pharmacology/
pharmacognosy, he is an author of over 300 research
papers
in top-tier journals and several books. His
research covers a broad area of drug discovery from
natural sources, modernisation of herbal medicines, and
the science of medicinal foods and nutraceuticals ...
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Dr Habtemariam’s expertise is based on decades of
research & consultancy on pharmacological assay
development in vitro, in vivo and clinical
studies. His work on qualitative and quantitative
analysis of medicinal products, separation/isolation of
active ingredients, and structural elucidations of
natural products have been based on state-of-the-art
equipment including HPLC systems, NMR, mass
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Dr Habtemariam is actively engaged on
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system. This includes critical analysis of institutional culture, quality
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