Dhuha Alshammaa

University of Baghdad · College of Pharmacy

CITE THIS ARTICLE Alshammaa Z A A, Alshammaa D A. The metabolic effect of medicinal plants and synthetic anti-obesity products on human health. Plant Science Today. 2024; 11(3): 704-718. https:// Abstract A significant public health issue is the widespread prevalence of overweight and obesity across all age groups. This common nutritional disorder...

A significant public health issue is the widespread prevalence of overweight and obesity across all age groups. This common nutritional disorder affects more than general appearance. Obesity is now recognized as a medical condition that necessitates treatment to lower the risk of diabetes and other metabolic diseases. Obesity is a prevalent global...

Borago officinalis is highly interesting amongst nutritional and medical source relate to its high composition of some useful phytochemical compound. It is great plants with bright blue star-shaped flowers present in most world regions and usually known as borage. The Borago phytochemical analysis showed the presence of alkaloids, tannins, flavonoi...

Since its first description as a cytotoxic agent, Olea europaea leaves extract gained significant popularity against human breast cancer, ethyl acetate extract of Olea europaea leaves obtained by acid hydrolysis method was evaluated in vitro as cytotoxic agent against new human breast cancer (AMJ13) cell line, using the MTT assay. One main pentacyc...

Ficusreligiosa Linn, (Moraceae), is a large evergreen or deciduous, irregularly shaped tree. Traditionally the leaves are used for the treatment of constipation, vomiting, hiccup, and others. Leaves were extracted by two methods; maceration and soxhelt using hexane and 80% aqueous methanol, then subjected to preliminary phytochemical examination, f...

Caffeine (1,3,7-trimethylxanthine), which is the most widely consumed stimulant in the world, had been isolated & estimated gravimetrically in fifteen different kinds of tea found in the Iraqi market. The kinds of tea were chosen according to their differences in the degree of fermentation & the method of processing. The isolated caffeine was iden...