A. Goldberg’s scientific contributions

... The Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus named the species Leontodon taraxacum in 1753 [5], but Wiggers (1746-1811) described the genus Taraxacum, and the German botanist Georg H. Weber named the plant Taraxacum officinale in 1780 [6]. The genus name Taraxacum is derived from the Greek word "taraxos", meaning "agitation" or "disorder", and "akos", meaning "remedy" [7,8]; officinale means medicinal or capable of producing medicine [9], or "of the shops", meaning it was sold as a remedy for man s illnesses [10]. The first mention of dandelion as a remedy was found in the works of Arab doctors in the tenth and eleventh centuries, who speak of it as Taraxacum. ...

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Bioactive Compounds from Vegetal Organs of Taraxacum Species (Dandelion) with Biomedical Applications: A Review

... A significant amount of preclinical and clinical research has been performed to scientifically underpin the traditional use of Crataegus in the treatment of heart failure; the first clinical trials date back to the 1990s [4,7,[22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30]. Leaf and flower extracts have been approved by the German Commission E for cardiac failure stage II according to the New York Heart Association (NYHA) [31,32]. The same indication is included in the monographs of the European Scientific Cooperative on Phytotherapy (ESCOP), on hawthorn leaf and flower [33] and hawthorn berries [34], and in the monograph of the World Health Organisation (WHO) [35]. ...

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Analysis of Adverse Reactions Associated with the Use of Crataegus-Containing Herbal Products

... Cultivation of ginger mostly occurs in tropical and subtropical countries including China, India, Nigeria, Australia, Jamaica, and Haiti. Among them, India is the world's leading producers of ginger (0.38 million ton) (Blumenthal, Goldberg, andBrinckmann 2000;Ashraf et al. 2014;Sajeev et al. 2011). Ginger rhizome contains two classes of constituents including the essential oils which give the aroma and the major pungent compounds called 6-, 8-, and10-gingerol. ...

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Determination of Gingerols in Ginger by Ultra-High Performance Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry