Abstract Increased resistance of pathogenic bacteria due to the use antibiotics has become a major concern in aquaculture industry. Environmentally friendly products are urgently needed replace for treatments fish diseases. This study aims determine activity extract Jeringau ( Acorus calamus ) as an antibacterial towards Aeromonas hydrophila, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Vibrio alginolyticus . Th...

1Department of Anesthesiology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan 2College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan 3Department of Surgery and Center for Surgical Research, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA 4Department of Surgery, Loyola University Chicago Health Sciences Campus, Maywood, IL 60153, USA 5Department of Anesthesiology, Chi...

Habitat characteristics were examined in two marshes and the littoral zones of two lakes in central Florida to determine their effect on the density and distribution of Coquillettidia perturbans. Larval and water samples were collected and habitat characteristics were recorded at monthly intervals for one year. Several significantly different physicochemical parameters were found between the ma...

The Pakistanian Acorus calamus (Fam.: Araceae) is locally found (Nasir, 1978) in Chitral, Peshawar, Jhelum valley, Thalawan valley, Mandi and Kashmir. The common name of A. calamus is sweet flag. It is found in marshy places and along the river banks from 600-2000m. The rootstock (modified stem) commonly called as rhizome, is medicinal and yields an essential oil used in the manufacture of soap...

For centuries, extracts of Acorus gramineus have been used extensively in traditional Chinese medicine for the treatment, management, and/or control of human ailments, including central nervous system disorders such as convulsions and epilepsy. In the present study, we investigated the anticonvulsant activity of chronic treatment with the plant's major essential oil component (a-asarone, 50-200...

Mosquitoes belong to the family Culicidae within the order Diptera[1]. There are approximately 3 400 species and 42 genera in the world[2]. It transmits a number of diseases, such as malaria, filariasis, dengue, Japanese encephalitis, yellow fever etc., causing millions of deaths every year[3]. Aedes aegypti (Ae. aegypti) is a vector of dengue and yellow fever while these diseases are widely di...

BACKGROUND Calamus (Acorus calamus Linn., Araceae) rhizome synonymously called sweet flag or Vacha is an aromatic herb indigenous to Central Asia and Eastern Europe. It has been used by the Ayurvedic practitioners since time immemorial for diseases ranging from weakness of memory to being used as an anthelminthic. Reports of its use have been found in books like Charak Samhita, Sushruta Samhita...