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Mice Swiss are orally given essential oil of lavander diluted at 1/60 in olive oil. Sedative effects are observed with some tests (hole board test, four plates test, plus-maze test, potentiation of barbiturate sleeping time). A significant interaction exists with pentobarbital: the sleeping time is increased and the asleeping time shortened.
Toxicity for albino rats is very low. In mice an anxiolytic effect is exhibited and the pentobarbital evokated sleeping time is increased in animals given essential oil, but this effect disappears if they are administrated during five days.
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The Museum of Materia Medica of Paris is very rich with a collection of about 22,000 specimens. During the last few years, the efforts have been much more devoted to teaching by means of annotated displays and exhibits.
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Hydroalcoholic extract of Matricaria chamomilla added during the early stage of Poliovirus development inhibits cellular and viral RNA synthesis. This inhibition is partially reversible.
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Traditional Medicine, as practised by the populations of developing Countries such as Zaire, traditionally use mostly plants for various illnesses. Within 300 km radius around Kinshasa, 94 plants used by various tradipractitioners to treat respiratory diseases in children were collected. These plants are identified, and the writers underline the role the tradipractitioner plays in gathering ethno-botanical and ethno-pharmacognostic data.
Ethno-botanic and ethno-pharmacognostic investigations have allowed the authors to obtain data on 94 plants used in respiratory diseases in Zairean child from four tradipractitioners.
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