Background and objectives: Oliveria decumbens belongs to Apiaceae family and is used in wide range of diseases such as gastrointestinal disorder. Several studies have shown that Oliveria decumbens essential oil possessed high amount of thymol and carvacrol but some other studies revealed that myristicin was one of the main components of the oil. The aim of the...

Considering the development of bacterial resistance to chemical antibiotics and their adverse effects on environment public health, there is a growing demand replace them with plant-based derivatives or combine these green agents give synergistic effects. In this study, antimicrobial properties essential oils extracts six medicinal plants from Ahvaz region, Iran, against 12 gram-positive gram-n...

The purpose of present study was to understand the background knowledge, benefits, applicability and important medicinal properties of selected plants of pycnocycla, oliveria decumbens and anvillea that the three essential oil plants are available in different parts of the world and consists of different variability in leaves, essential oil content, etc. Moreover, they are seven species of plan...

BACKGROUND Staphylococcus aureus is one of the most causative organisms in the skin wound infections. Development of resistant S. aureus to current treatments in individuals with low immunity is a global concern. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of herbal formulation against skin wound infection. METHODS The efficacy of herbal formulation containing Oliveria decumbens and Pe...

in this study, anti alternaria solani effects of essential oils of 11 medicinal and aromatic plant species belonging to four families collected from the west of iran were investigated based on agar dilution method with five replications at concentration of 1.0 µl/ml. the results showed that the highest inhibitory effect belonged to oliveria decumbens, cinnamomum zeylanicum, carum copticum and t...

Oliveria decumbens is an aromatic plant traditionally used for treatment of infections and gastrointestinal diseases. In the present study, the volatile oil of the plant was obtained by hydrodistillation and analyzed by GC-MS. In addition, antibacterial and anti-Helicobacter pylori activities of this essential oil were determined using disc diffusion and agar dilution methods, respectively. Ins...