Plants in Menstrual Diseases: A Systematic Study from Italian Folk Medicine on Current Approaches.

Plant-based remedies have been used since antiquity to treat menstrual-related diseases (MD). From the late nineteenth to the early to mid-twentieth century, Italian folk remedies to treat "women's diseases" were documented in a vast of literature sources. The purpose of this paper is to bring to light the plant-based treatments utilized by Italian folk medicine to heal clinical manifestations of premenstrual syndrome (PMS), dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea and menstrual disorders in an attempt to discuss these remedies from a modern pharmacological point of view.

A review of the antimicrobial potential of herbal drugs used in popular Italian medicine (1850s-1950s) to treat bacterial skin diseases.

Ethnopharmacological Relevance: Before the advent of modern antibiotics, microbial infections were treated with herbal medicine or cauterization. Literature from the latter half of the nineteenth to the early mid-twentieth century, when antibiotics became widely available, arguably holds the most progressive information about herbal remedies to treat bacterial skin diseases. The corpus of literature produced in Italy during that period is not easily accessible and mostly out of print.

: A Customized aCGH for the Analysis of Copy Number Variations in Neurological Disorders.

Background: Neurological disorders are a highly heterogeneous group of pathological conditions that affect both the peripheral and the central nervous system. These pathologies are characterized by a complex and multifactorial etiology involving numerous environmental agents and genetic susceptibility factors. For this reason, the investigation of their pathogenetic basis by means of traditional methodological approaches is rather arduous.

A rare association between multiple sclerosis and Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 1B.

The association between multiple sclerosis (MS) and hereditary and sporadic demyelinating disorders of the peripheral nervous system is extremely rare. We herein report a case of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1B with p.Val102fs mutation in the MPZ gene that developed relapsing remitting MS.