BACKGROUND Antibiotic resistance is a major therapeutic problem in patients infected with Helicobacter pylori. H. pylori clarithromycin resistant mutants have been evolved during antibiotic therapy, this is mainly due to 23s rRNA point mutations. OBJECTIVES In the present study, we investigated anti-mutational features of four traditionally Iranian medicinal plants on three local isolated H. ...

Background and objectives: Pain is a primarily protective in nature, but often causes discomfort. Currently available analgesic drugs are not useful in all cases due to their side effects. Medicinal plants are believed to be an important source of new chemical substances with potential therapeutic effects, such as, Teucrium polium (TP) used traditionally to relieve hea...

There are some reports in ancient medicinal literature that aqueous extracts of the leaves of Teucrium polium show analgesic effects. This prompted us to investigate the analgesic effect of the leaves of the plant using Tail-Flick and Fomalin tests. For this purpose, male NMRI rats weighing 220-260 g were used in all experiments. The aqueous extract of the plant was injected intraperitoneally a...

Perceptions of safety and/or cultural mores prompt individuals to seek herbal slimming aids in preference to conventional dietary, physical activity and medication-based protocols. In recent years, terpenoid-containing dietary supplements have been implicated in causing severe and sometimes fatal hepatotoxicity. Teucrium polium (germander) was the first of these herbal products to be clearly li...

There are some reports in ancient medicinal literature that aqueous extracts of the leaves of Teucrium polium show analgesic effects. This prompted us to investigate the analgesic effect of the leaves of the plant using Tail-Flick and Fomalin tests. For this purpose, male NMRI rats weighing 220-260 g were used in all experiments. The aqueous extract of the plant was injected intraperitoneally a...

BACKGROUND Sarcomas are a type of malignant tumors that arise from connective tissue. They are most of the time found in extremities CASE PRESENTATION We are presenting a case of adult male patient, who was found to have huge abdominal mass and multiple gastric and duodenal polyps. Pathological diagnosis for all lesions was Alveolar soft part sarcoma. Although he complained from metastasis to...

The aim of this work was to evaluate the phytochemical components, minerals, the antioxidant activity and total phenol contents of the essential oil from aerial parts of six major medicinal plants in Rayen, Iran. The plants included Ranunculus arvensis, Teucrium polium, Dracocephalum polychaetum, Kelussia odoratissima, Artemisia sieberi and Thymus kotschyanus. Total phenol content ranged from 0...

The essential oils from four samples of Teucrium lusitanicum and one sample of Teucrium algarbiensis, grown in Algarve (southern Portugal) were analyzed by gas chromatography (GC) and gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy (GC-MS). Seventy-one volatile compounds were identified. Major compounds of T. algarbiensis oil were alpha-pinene (8.3%), sabinene (7.2%), beta-pinene (10.2%), limonene (11.8%)...

background: “teucrium polium l.” (tp) has been long recommended in iranian folk medicine for its anti-diabetic activities. we attempt here to evaluate the effect of tp extract on insulin secretion in rat pancreas. methods: rat pancreas was isolated in situ and perfused with krebs solution containing low glucose (lg, 2.8 mm) or high glucose (hg, 16.7 mm) as perfusate. the aqueous extract (aq. e)...