Chemical Analyses and Therapeutic Properties of Plant Extracts.

It has been almost 20 years since the World Health Organization (WHO) established the International Regulatory Co-operation for Herbal Medicines (IRCH), as part of a WHO Traditional Medicine Strategy [...

Composition and hardness of malting red and white kaffir sorghum [ (L.) Moench] dried under the sun.

This investigation determined how changes in chemical composition of malting red and white kaffir sorghum grains dried under the sun affected the resistance of the malts to fracture as determined by the Monsanto Hardness Tester. The sorghum grains were malted by a modification of the 2-step wet steep method and dried under the sun. The results showed that malting increased diastatic activity to peak values of 78.