Anthropic activities, amongst the countless benefits offered to humans, and which moreover have become essential, are unfortunately the cause of considerable changes in the ecosystem in its main sectors – air, ground, water – causing their widespread contamination and having an influence on global climatic conditions… Scarica PDF
Pycnogenol is a name registered by the company Horghag Research Ltd and represents an extract from the bark of the maritime pine (Pinus Pinaster) studied in 1953 and widely used as a food integrator in the United States… Scarica PDF
Over the centur ies, therapist s have not iced that , in man, there are discreet percentages of improvement and even cure (up to 50%) through medicat ion with substances without any pharmacodynamic effect , i.e. considered unsuitable to modify the altered metabolic react ions of the patient , restoring them to normal… Scarica PDF
Prostate cancer (CaP) is the second leading cause of cancer- related death among men in Western countries. At the moment, CaP represents a major health problem, growing as populations age… Scarica PDF
Plant drugs have a long history in both traditional and modern societies as herbal remedies or crude drugs, as purified compounds approved by Food and Drug Administration… Scarica PDF
The English term “Cranberry” is used to indicate the group of small evergreen shrubs that form the Oxycoccos sub-genus of the Vaccinium genus, of the Ericaceae family, and which grow on acid soils in the cold regions of the northern hemisphere of the planet… Scarica PDF
The results from the JPHC study… Scarica PDF
…at present however, these compounds are gradually losing the interest of gastro-intestinal phytotherapeutic research because they have been replaced by compounds with a blander action (such as the so-called “mechanical” laxat ives”, that is of swelling, such as psyllium) point ing out , however, new horizons in the antitumour field (apoptosis of carcinogenic cells) of […]
In the past ten years, phytotherapeutic knowledge on St. John’s wort has undergone a radical change, allowing it a more objective positive evaluation. From the biological point of view, St. John’s wort is not , as was thought, a drug that is active against psychovegetative disorders, anxiety and nervous agitation but is exclusively an anti-depressant […]
Clinical experimentation with extracts of St.. John’s wort in depressed patients – Results, comparisons and final conclusions of pharmaco ther apy against depression… Scarica PDF