PATHOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF SOME TRADITIONALLY USED MATERIALS IN HUMAN AND VETERINARY PRACTICE

Recently, there are growing interests especially in the developed countries in using some materials from the folk medicine for treatment of some diseases that are not curable by current medications like cancer and hepatitis C virus. This article is focusing on pathological evaluation of three of these materials turmeric, camel’s milk and curcumin. Camel’s milk and turmeric were tested as hepatoprotective against Carbon tetrachloride toxicity in albino rats and they partially protect against that toxicity. In another experiment curcumin and Meriva (curcumin phospholipid complex) were evaluated as anticancer agents. In vitro, curcumin induced cell death in dose-dependent manner. In vivo, both curcumin and Meriva have failed anticancer agents against canine glioblastoma in nude mice.