The genus Citrus (Rutaceae) includes several species of plants that produce some of the most cultivated fruits in the world, providing an appreciable content of essential oil. In folk medicine, they are used as a cholagogue, antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, sedative, and antitoxic effects. Lemon essential oil has been used since ancient times for its antiseptic, carminative, diuretic, and eupept...

A total of 53 plant essential oils were tested for their insecticidal activities against eggs, nymphs, and adults of Trialeurodes vaporariorum Westwood, using an impregnated filter paper bioassays without allowing direct contact. Responses varied according to oil type and dose, and developmental stage of the insect. Bay, caraway seed, clove leaf, lemon eucalyptus, lime dis 5 F, pennyroyal, pepp...

A study was undertaken to explore the content and composition of volatile oil from decaying leaves of lemon-scented eucalypt (Eucalyptus citriodora Hook.) not analyzed earlier. GC and GC-MS analysis of the oil (yield 0.6%) revealed the monoterpenoid nature with citronellal (52.2%), citronellol (12.3%) and isoisopulegol (11.9%) as the major constituents. Overall, 17 components were identified th...

The essential oil industry is a growing sector that generates 5.41 billion USD annually worldwide. Essential oils are widely used in medicine, agriculture, and perfumery. Although there available systems the market for domestic extraction, replacing entire equipment case of repair or malfunction can be costly. To address this problem, pilot-scale extractor system was developed operates through ...

BACKGROUND The management of Candida infections faces many problems, such as a limited number of antifungal drugs, toxicity, resistance of Candida to commonly antifungal drugs, relapse of Candida infections, and the high cost of antifungal drugs. Though azole antifungal agents and derivatives continue to dominate as drugs of choice against Candida infections, there are many available data refer...

Corymbia citriodora and Cymbopogon nardus essential oils samples were analyzed by GC and GC-MS and their qualitative and quantitative compositions established. The main component of essential oils of C. citriodora and C. nardus was citronellal, at 61.78% and 36.6%, respectively. The essential oils and citronellal were tested for their fumigant antifungal activity against Pyricularia (Magnaporth...

Introduction: Many studies have provided non-pharmacological therapies to overcome health problems, including maternal and child health. One is how sleep disorders often complained about in pregnant women's third trimester. Some previous analyzed aromatherapy using floral fragrances by inhaling oil directly or applied cotton one type of aroma only, while inhalation a diffuser combining two more...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the use lemon essential oil and its mixtures with chitosan, calcium chloride, natamycin on postharvest storage quality citrus. analysis physiological biochemical index changes citrus stored at 20 ± 2 °C 75 5% relative humidity for 60 days showed that could help maintain nutritional sensory In addition, increased activities superoxide dismutase (SOD), ...