Poppyseed oil is considered a good quality oil owing to its rich polyunsaturated fatty acid content. Thus, tremendous potential exists in poppy seeds to be used as functional food ingredients and nutraceutical agents in various formulations. Medicinal and functional uses of poppy seed have been ...
Fig. 1 Physicochemical properties of secondary metabolites in medicinal plants. The abundance of these compounds, such as phenolics, terpenoids, and alkaloids, makes medicinal plants rich in nutraceutical and pharmaceutical properties. There are multiple health benefits in the bioactive compounds present in...
Medicinal Uses of Red Poppy The red poppy flowers have for a long time been used for its weak anesthetic, analgesic, relaxing and mild sedative properties. The constituents present in the petals are also responsible for the herbs softening and mildly expectorant action and explains its uses in ...
magnetic propertiespressure dependenceDefinition of the Subject Plants are the most excellent designers and producers of a variety of small compounds that are beneficial to mankind as foods, medicines, and industrial raw materials. The use of medicinal plants for human health dates back to ancient ...
Recently, with increasing demands for sustainable pharmaceutical alkaloids bio-compounds, such as thebaine, morphine and oripavine, a few Persian poppy accessions and their biochemical properties were investigated [19]. Our knowledge of the species natural and genetic resources is still limited. ...
The medicinal plant happy tree (Camptotheca acuminata) is a deciduous tree having anticancer properties. A total of 152 human target genes associated with prominent types of cancers were predicted to be regulated by 14 highly stable putative novel miRNAs in the happy tree (Table 1) [47]. ...
Some species of Meliaceae have medicinal properties. The bark of the Indo-Malaysian Azadirachta indica (neem) is astringent and may also be used to make an insecticide. The bark of Guarea rusbyi (cocillana) from South America is an emetic. The seeds of other species yield useful oils. Severa...
According to the chemical properties, positions, and types of substituents on the ring, flavonoids can be divided into several subclasses, such as flavones, flavonols, dihydroflavones, dihydroflavonols, isoflavones, chalcone, aurone, and anthocyanidin, among others [188]. The abundance and diversity ...
A poultice of the crushed root is applied to swellings, sore muscles, varicose veins, and tumors.Read more... Lyre Leaf Sage Lyre-leaved sage has some of the same properties of the other sages but is very weak.Read more... Mallows, Althea ...
(Infusion of half a tablespoon of dry petals per liter of water. Drink three cups a day) (Take poppy syrup for cough) Licorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra) In addition to its bactericidal properties, licorice has anti-inflammatory and soothing properties of the respiratory mucous membrane so that ...