A review of Mazu and its medicinal uses in Unani medicine

Abstract

A Gall is an abnormal growth of plant tissue produced by animal agency acting from within. 1 . Any organ of the plant may become the seat of this hyperplasia, but the form which the gall ultimately assumes is governed by the potentialities of growth in the part attacked, and by the nature of the animal excitation present. Oak galls (Mazu) is an out growths formed on the young twigs of the dyer's oak, Quercus infectoria (Fagaceae), as a result of the deposition of the eggs of the gall-wasp, this is used for medicinal purposes before escape of insects in dried form as described by classical Unani literature. Keeping in view of the medicinal properties described in ancient Unani scholars and scientific research on various medicinal properties of oak galls (Mazu), this paper an attempt to correlate the properties of Mazu with latest scientific research.

Khảo sát hoạt tính chống oxy hóa và ức chế enzym alpha-glucosidase của Dền gai (Amaranthus spinosus L. Amaranthaceae)

“…Nh ng công d ng n i b t c a DG nh i u tr b nh lý ái tháo ng, viêm d dày ru t, l i ti u, i u hòa kinh nguy t, h s t, viêm ph qu n,... [3]. Chính vì v y, DG d n tr thành m c tiêu nghiên c u ti m n ng c a các nhà khoa h c trên th gi i. Nhi u nghiên c u ã cho th y d ch chi t các b ph n c a DG có kh n ng ch ng oxy hóa [4], l i ti u [5], h lipid máu [6]. Kh n ng tr T c nghiên c u trên c 2 mô hình in vivo [7] và in vitro [8].…”

Comparative evaluation of the biochemical composition of fruits Malus spp.

“…The use of herbal raw materials is one of the directions of modern pharmaceutical science in the production of herbal medicines (Nybom et al, 1959;Boyer and Liu, 2004;Ivanišová et al, 2015;Hammad et al, 2021;Slobodianiuk et al, 2021). The main criterion for the use of the plant is the regulation of metabolic disorders, as the metabolites of the plant are close to the metabolites of the human body (Bondonno et al, 2017;Huzio et al, 2020;Slobodianiuk et al, 2021).…”