phytolacca icosandra/化學療法

OBJECTIVE Preventive measures against skin melanoma like chemotherapy are useful but suffer from chronic side effects and drug resistance. Ethanolic extract of Phytolacca decandra (PD), used in homeopathy for the treatment of various ailments like chronic rheumatism, regular conjunctivitis,

The rising costs of chemotherapy and synthetic molluscides have led to an increasing interest in plants which are lethal to the intermediate host of schistosomiasis (bilharzia). Over one thousand species have been tested but only a few have been phytochemically examined. Approximately fifty

OBJECTIVE To record the effect of Endod soap and spraying of soaked Endod suspension on the prevalence of human schistosomiasis. METHODS A cross-sectional epidemiological study in which pre- and post-intervention parasitological results were compared. METHODS Kemise, Bati and Harbu towns in

A schistosomiasis control project was undertaken from 1994 to 1998 in Guruve District, Zimbabwe, based on the active involvement of local communities in the growing and application of the molluscicidal plant Phytolacca dodecandra as a supplement to other control measures such as chemotherapy and