The adult age class is that age group greater than 65 years of age and this age group requires special consideration in their drug therapy. They are also constituting a great number and factors like increase birth rate, decrease in mortality associated with the development of antibiotics and vaccines, improvement in mortality in coronary artery…[Read more]

Nothing beats cold in the winter like a piping hot cup of ginger tea. With its high levels of Vitamin C, magnesium and other minerals, ginger root is extremely beneficial for health.
Once made into tea, you can add peppermint, honey or lemon to mask the taste of the ginger. Here’s why you should have this soothing beverage.
Relieve nausea
Drinking…[Read more]

This write up is based on the research conducted in our department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Maiduguri.

Taxonomy and Classification of the Herbal Drug Sterculia setigera.
Kingdom: Plantae
Subfamily: Viridiplantae
Infra kingdom: Streptophyta
Supra division: Embryophyta
Division: Tracheophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Super order:…[Read more]

A drug is a substance used to treat an illness, relieve symptoms or modify a chemical process in the body of a living thing. Essentially, a drug plays an important role in the regulations and repairing of faulty systems in our body.

People often mistake and relate the mechanism of action of a drug and its aetiology. A drug acts by different way…[Read more]