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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases is an online database developed by James A. Duke at the USDA. The databases report species, phytochemicals, and biological activity, as well as ethnobotanical uses. [1] The current Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical databases facilitate plant, chemical, bioactivity, and ethnobotany searches.
The Index Herbariorum provides a global directory of herbaria (singular, herbarium; plural, herbaria) and their associated staff.This searchable online index allows scientists rapid access to data related to 3,400 locations where a total of 350 million botanical specimens are permanently housed.
The leaves are used as herbal medicine to alleviate cough and fever, pain, and general gastrointestinal disorders as well as to cure dermatologic disorders. Similarly, the fruit juice and oils can be used in the treatment of liver disease, gastrointestinal disorders, chronic wounds or other dermatological disorders.
The subset is designed to limit search results to citations from a broad spectrum of dietary supplement literature including vitamin, mineral, phytochemical, ergogenic, botanical, and herbal supplements in human nutrition and animal models. The subset will retrieve dietary supplement-related citations on topics including, but not limited to:
Some herbs may amplify the effects of anticoagulants. [51] Certain herbs as well as common fruit interfere with cytochrome P450, an enzyme critical to much drug metabolism. [52] In a 2018 study, the FDA identified active pharmaceutical additives in over 700 analyzed dietary supplements sold as "herbal", "natural" or "traditional". [53]
The IPNI database is a collection of the names registered by the three cooperating institutions and they work towards standardizing the information. The standard of author abbreviations recommended by the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants is Brummitt and Powell's Authors of Plant Names. A digital and continually ...
The surface of herbs is a catalyst for dew, [19] [20] which in arid climates and seasons is the main type of precipitation and is necessary for the survival of vegetation, [21] [22] i.e. in arid areas, herbaceous plants are a generator of precipitation and the basis of an ecosystem. Most of the water vapor that turns into dew comes from the air ...
James A. Duke (4 April 1929 – 10 December 2017) was an American botanist. [1] He was the author of numerous publications on botanical medicine, including the CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs.