Arguments against dabbing for medical use usually center around a lack of testing of extract products.
"What you're really getting is a balanced extract product," Miranda said.
In recent years, traditional Chinese medicine such as Ginkgo biloba extract and crude extract from natural products such as Leguminosae, Cucurbitaceae, and Araliaceae have been established scientifically to have antidiabetic effects [ 7, 8].
Other than the biomass extracts, pure organic compounds extracted from natural products such as ascorbic acid[32], succinic acid[33], tryptamine[34], caffeine[35], Pennyroyal oil[36], amino acids[37], and caffeic acid[38, 39] have also been evaluated as corrosion inhibitors.
Other than the plant extracts, pure organic compounds extracted from natural products such as piperine [18], Ellagic acid, tannic acid [19], tryptamine [20], caffeine [21], Pennyroyal oil [22], amino acids [23] and caffeic acid [24] have also been used for inhibition of corrosion.
The use of these natural products such as extracted compounds from leaves or seeds as corrosion inhibitors have been widely reported by several authors [16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26].
However, it is much easier to make standardized products such as extracts from whole plants, as the extract can be easily measured and adjusted for potency.
Previous work by our group using whole soluble TS extracts from research tobacco products (such as 3R4F; equivalent to conventional full flavor cigarettes) revealed a host of strong pro-inflammatory responses triggered by cigarette smoke at the BBB endothelial level [ 45].
Many of the natural products, such as aged garlic extract (Howard et al, 2007) or lupeol (Prasad et al, 2008) which are extracted from fruit or plant have been shown to have a chemosensitisation effect.
Though the antimicrobial activity of certain plant products such as extracts, essential oils and phytochemicals has been reported [ 18- 20], the review of literature indicates that no systematic study has been conducted regarding application of phytochemicals extracted from Indian spice plant, Cz, as antifungal agents.
