Background & Aim: The use of anti-nociceptive and anti-inflammatory drugs in clinical medicine is necessary and unavoidable. Since the use of synthetic drugs is associated with numerous side effects, the application of complementary therapies such as herbal medicine can accompany with less side effects while having anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties. Satureja<e...

this work analyzes the effects of satureja khuzestanica essential oil (skeo) on the thyroid and antioxidant system, assessed by measuring levels of tri-iodothyronine (t3), thyroxine (t4), thyroid-stimulating hormone (tsh), malondialdehyde (mda), reduced glutathione (gsh), and glutathione peroxidase (gpx) activity. forty adult male sprague dawley rats (225 ± 25 g) were divided into five equal gr...

satureja hortensis is a popular herb in most regions of the world with leaves used as seasoning. evidence shows that this plant contains phenolic components such as thymol and carvacrol with a relatively wide spectrum of antimicrobial activity. this study aimed at evaluating the efficacy of s. hortensis plant powder as an alternative to antimicrobial growth promoters in broiler diets. the plant...

background &amp; aim: satureja khuzistanica jamzad. is an aromatic and medicinal perennial plant belongs to family mint (lamiaceae). it is also an iranian exclusive endemic species, its essential oil components are widely used in medicinal, culinary, and perfume industries. experimental: flowers were collected in 10 regions in khuzistan and lorestan provinces, iran at early anthesis during 2009...

Some medicinal plants are a potential source of new drugs, in order to improve the treatment of Chagas disease whose treatment is still a challenge. In this study, the in vitro anti-epimastigote activity of certain fractions of Achillea biebersteinii, A. millefolium, Satureja mutica and S. macrantha was evaluated. Diethyl ether fractions of Achillea species and acetone fractions of Satureja spe...

A new species, Satureja hasturkii, is described using morphological characters and molecular studies in this study. The species closely related to S. hortensis but differs from it by very lax thyrsoid inflorescence, longer pedicels, shorter calyx, upper lower calyx teeth, corolla. In order support the data, are also done nrITS cptrnL-F gene regions. data gives better results phylogenetic analys...