Browsing by Subject "Ethnopharmacology"

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Ethnopharmacognostic study of folk cosmeceuticals in Vhembe district, Limpopo Province, South Africa

Setshego, Mamokete Venolia (North-West University (South Africa), 2019)

Cosmeceuticals made from natural resources tend to have more advantages such as limited side effects, cheaper costs and biodegradability, compared to the synthetic ones. Even though ethnobotanical knowledge has the potential ...
Garcinia mangostana Linn displays antidepressant-like and pro-cognitive effects in a genetic animal model of depression: a bio-behavioral study in the Flinders Sensitive Line rat

Oberholzer, Inge; Möller, Marisa; Harvey, Brian Herbert; Holland, Brendan; Dean, Olivia M. (Springer, 2018)

There is abundant evidence for both disorganized redox balance and cognitive deficits in major depressive disorder (MDD). Garcinia mangostana Linn (GM) has anti-oxidant activity. We studied the antidepressant-like and ...