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Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is viral respiratory illness that was lately recognized in human. It was first testified in Saudi Arabia in 2012 and has since spread to numerous other countries, as well as the United State. Record people well-known as infected with MERS-CoV developed numerous acute respiratory illnesses, including fever, cough and shortness of breath. Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is an illness initiated by a virus (more specifically, a coronavirus) called Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV). Around 3 to 4 out of every 10 patients reported with MERS have died. The biggest known outbreak of MERS outside the Arabian Peninsula occurred in the Republic of Korea in 2015. The outbreak was allied with a traveler returning from the Arabian Peninsula. MERS-CoV has spread from ill people to others through close contact, like caring for or living with infected person. MERS can affect everyone. MERS patients have ranged in age from younger than 1 to 99 years old. No vaccine available against MERS. The U.S. National Institutes...
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Infectious diseases are among the most important common diseases worldwide that bring stupendous costs for human community. Medicinal plants are considered a rich source of antimicrobial agents and therefore can be used as antimicrobial remedies because of producing secondary metabolites. This article was designed to review the effective medicinal plants on fungi and fungal disease. In this study, the relevant articles published in Persian and English languages were searched for in the databases Magiran, Iranmedex, Irandoc, PubMed, Scopus, SID, Web of Science, and Science Direct using the search engine Google Scholar. To maximize the comprehensiveness of the search, the general terms antimicrobial, dermatophyte, mycotic, Iran, and anti-Candida as well as their Persian equivalents were used. AND and OR were used for combining searches. Medicinal herbs such as Zataria multiflora, Thymus vulgaris, Thymus kotschyanus, Punicagranatum L., Rosmarinus officinalis L., Matricaria chamomilla L., Urtica dioica L., Mentha piperita L. and Salvia officinalis L., Thymus vulgaris, Salvia officinalis, Eucalyptus globulus, Mentha piperita, Oliveria decumbens, Echinophora Platyloba, Thymus eriocalyx and Thymus X-porlock, Achillea...
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Lagerstroemia speciosa is commonly known as crape myrtle belonging to the Lythraceae family. Lagerstroemia speciosa or Banaba is a medicinal tree traditionally used to lower blood sugar in the body. Its high content of corosolic acid makes it an effective anti-diabetic drug. Banaba is also recommended for kidney, bladder problems and hypertension. Leaves of the species have been traditionally used over thousands of years as folkloric treatment by the native Indians and Japanese for illness, ailments particularly for lowering blood sugar levels and weight loss. The flower extracts of the species has some pharmacological properties like antioxidant and anti-microbial activities, whereas fruit extracts reported anti-nociceptive, anti-diarrhea and cytotoxic activities. Research on leaf extracts reveals that anti-bacterial, anti-viral, anti-inflammatory, anti-obesity, anti-fibrotic, anti-diabetic and xanthine oxidase inhibition, diuretic, decongestant activities and roots are applied for treating mouth ulcers. In addition to that bark is used to relieve the abdominal pains. The species also has essential metals like sodium, potassium, iron, zinc and magnesium which were clinically proved. Thus these reviews will...
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Swarna has been used all through these ages in various forms such as raw gold, pure metal, gold foils, red colloidal solution, Swarna Patra, Swarna Parpati and bhasma and other forms in varying dose and stands time tested. The procedure in which Swarna along with herbs are taken in the form of liquid, semi-solid or paste form by children orally is referred as Swarnaprashana. Swarnamritaprashana is formulated by modifying Swarnaprashana with scientific inputs and references from Ayurvedic classical literatures. Guduchi (Tinospora cordifolia (Thunb.) Miers), Brahmi (Bacopa monnieri(L.) “Vacha” Pennell), (Acorus calamus L.), Jatamamsi (Nardostachys jatamansi (D. Don) DC.), Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal), Shankhapuspi (Convolvulous pluricaulis Choisy), Yastimadhu (Glycyrrhiza glabraL.), Pippali (Piper longum L.) and Maricha (Piper nigrum L.) are the constituents of Swarnamritaprashana. Since 2009 May, Swarnamritaprashana has been administered once in a month at 12 centers at the Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara College of Ayurveda and Hospital, Hassan, Karnataka, India as a public health initiative. The current paper details how Swarnaprashana has got transformed into the current form...
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Cancer is a deliberating disease affecting people worldwide. Treatment of cancer has become a number one priority among medical specialists and different modes of treatment are being pursued. Various factors are involved in the proliferation of cancer thereby complicating its treatment. Certain enzymes or protein products within the cell can be up-regulated or down-regulated as the cancer progresses inside the tissue. In order to treat cancer, enzymes which play a key role in the disease can be targeted. These enzymes include cysteine cathepsins and matrix metalloproteinases. Cysteine cathepsins are a group of enzymes that are involved in degradation of the surrounding cell environment of cancer cells. The surrounding healthy cells are thereby invaded and destroyed by cancer cells. Hence they cause localized spreading and growth of cancer cells. Matrix metalloproteinase are mainly involved in metastasis of these cancer cells. They help in angiogenesis surrounding the cancer tissue thus providing nutrition to cells and proliferation via the blood stream. Hence both enzymes has a vital role in proliferation of cancer...
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