Humans use plants for thousands of years to treat various ailments, in many developing countries; much of the population relies on traditional doctors and their collections of medicinal plants to cure them. Essential oils have many therapeutic properties. In herbal medicine, they are used for their antiseptic properties against infectious diseases of fungal origin, against dermatophytes, those ...

background: the leishmanicidal and cytotoxic activity of ten essential oils obtained from ten plant specimens were evaluated. methods: essential oils were obtained by the steam distillation of plant leaves without any prior processing. cytotoxicity was tested on j774 macrophages and leishmanicidal activity was assessed against four species of leishmania associated with cutaneous leishmaniasis ....

the essential oil of verbena officinalis growing in iran was extracted using hydro-distillationmethod and the antibacterial and antioxidant activities were evaluated. the antibacterial activity of the essentialoil against a gram-positive (s. aureus atcc25923) and gram negative (e. coli atcc 25922) were examined.the results obtained revealed that the essential oil exhibited variable levels of an...

conclusions the data of the study clearly indicated that the eo of s. hortensis has a strong antioxidant, antibacterial, and antifungal activity. results total phenolic content was determined by using folin-ciocalteu reagent (32.65 mg/g), which was presented as gallic acid equivalent in 1 g of sample. ic50 of eo and ascorbic acid in dpph method were respectively 277.9 and 19.34 µg. minimum inhi...

many food products are perishable by nature and require protection from spoilage during their preparation, storage and distribution to give them desired shelf-life. because food products are now often sold in areas of the world far distant from their production sites, the need for extended safe shelf-life for these products has also expanded. currently, there is a strong debate about the safety...

essential oils are volatile, natural, complex compounds formed by aromatic plants as secondary metabolites. in nature, essential oils play an important role in protecting plants in form of antibacterials, antivirals, antifungals, insecticides properties and also against herbivores. they also may attract some insects to use them in dispersion of pollens and seeds, or repel undesirable others. pr...

pennyroyal, an aromatic herb, is considered by food and medicine industries. it grows in different countries and provides various technological and functional properties. essential oils (especially ‘pulegune’) are the effective materials of pennyroyal that causes anti-microbial, anti-oxidant and aromatic properties. these essential oils have significant effects on preventing growth of several s...

conclusions results have shown that a. spicigera eo before and after flowering has antioxidant properties and therefore can be used in combination with other preservatives to protect food materials against a variety of oxidative systems. background essential oils (eo), also called volatile odoriferous oil, are aromatic oily liquids extracted from different parts of plants. in general, the const...

the effects of drought and salinity stress on the growth and chemical compositions pennyroyal(mentha pulegium l.) plant were investigated. this experiment was carried out in a factorial-randomized design with four replications in controlled conditions and plantlets were subject to four soil moisture regimes (40, 60, 80 and 100 of field capacity (fc)) and five salt treatments with 0, 25, 50, 75 ...

background and objective: considering the increasing tendency of public towards green consumption and the dangers of artificial additives, this study aimed to assess antibacterial activity of essential oils of cinnamomum zeylanicum, mentha piperita l., zataria multiflora boiss and thymus vulgaris against three important pathogenic and spoilage bacteria (pseudomonas fluorescens, erwinia carotovo...