Various plants form the basis of multiple traditional ethnic cuisines and ethnomedicinal practices across the globe. The ethnic cuisines cater to the nutritional, dietary and medicinal requirements of the tribal and rural communities even today. Using literature from various scholarly databases, this study was conducted to consolidate a comprehensive review on the use of Sauropus androgynus (L.…
Page Header USER Username Password Remember me ABOUT THE AUTHORS Sa'roni Sa'roni Pusat Penelitian dan Pengembangan Farmasi dan Obat Tradisional, Balitbangkes. Depkes, Jakarta. Indonesia Tonny Sadjiman Clinical Epidemiologi & Biostatistic Unit, Gajah Mada Faculty of Medicine/RSUP DR.Sardjito, Yogyakarta Indonesia Mochammad Sja'bani Clinical Epidemiologi & Biostatistic Unit, G…
Sauropus androgynus is traditionally consumed by Indonesians and is believed to increase breast milk production during lactation. Lactation, a process of milk synthesis and secretion, occurs with the help of 2 hormones, prolactin and oxytocin. The expressions of genes encoding prolactin and oxytocin were analyzed in lactating BALB/C mice brains using qRT-PCR.
Coleus amboinicus Lour (CA) has been used as a breast milk stimulant (a lactagogue) by Bataknese people in Indonesia for hundreds of years. However, the traditional use of CA is not well documented, and scientific evidence is limited to establish CA as a lactagogue. This investigation was conducted to elucidate the effect of traditional use of CA during the first month of lactation on quantity …
A benefi cial role of probiotics, especially Lactobacillus rhamnosus, in children with atopic dermatitis (AD) has been reported. Their effects are primarily mediated through immune pathways, which need further investigation. This study aimed to investigate clinical and immunologic effects of probiotics in the treatment of children with AD
The definition for probiotics has gradually changed with increasing understanding of the mechanisms by which they influence human health. Health e!ects related to changes in the intestinal micro#ora also accompany or are related to adhesion and immune system e!ects, competitive exclusion or metabolic and nutritional e!ects, with an increasing array of other potential modes of action. Most cl…
The diverse metabolic activities of the mammalian gut microflora are well established (see reviews by Scheline, 1973; Rowland and Walker, 1983; Rowland et al., 1985). It is also clear that many of these reactions catalyzed by the microflora alter the toxicological properties of ingested chemicals and of substances produced by the host and secreted into the gut lumen, for example, bile acids a…
Following on from the FAO/WHO Expert Consultation and Working Group outputs on probiotics and their presentation to Codex, it is hoped that these will be used as a science-based risk assessment process for managerial decision on probiotics and that the ‘‘Guidelines for the Evaluation of Probiotics in Food’’ will be used as a model for scientific criteria for evaluation of health claims.…
To compare the efficacy of five probiotic preparations recommended to parents in the treatment of acute diarrhoea in children
Our data show that remdesivir was superior to placebo in shortening the time to recovery in adults who were hospitalized with Covid-19 and had evidence of lower respiratory tract infection. (Funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and others; ACTT-1 ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT04280705.)