Health benefits including antioxidant potential of black tea (Camellia sinensis), lemon (Citrus limon) and honey bees (Apis mellifera) have been extensively reported. Nevertheless, nothing is reported about the effects of their concomitant use. Herein, those effects were evaluated in infusions of lemon-flavoured black tea with three different kinds of honey (light amber, amber and dark amber) f...

Many Lamiaceae species are consumed in the Lebanese cuisine as food or condiment and are largely used in the traditional medicine of Lebanon to treat various diseases, including microbial infections. In this article we report the traditional medicinal uses of eleven Lamiaceae species: Coridothymus capitatus L., Lavandula stoechas L., Lavandula angustifolia Mill., Mentha spicata L. subsp. conden...

Essential oils distilled from members of the genus Lavandula have been used both cosmetically and therapeutically for centuries with the most commonly used species being L. angustifolia, L. latifolia, L. stoechas and L. x intermedia. Although there is considerable anecdotal information about the biological activity of these oils much of this has not been substantiated by scientific or clinical ...

background & aim: the lamiaceae or labiatae (commonly referred to as the mint or deadnettle family) are an exceedingly large and widespread of flowering plants (angiospermae). most member of lamiaceae plants are used in iranian folk medicine as stimulant, antiseptic, aphrodisiac, stomachic, expectorant, carminative, anti-diarrheic and anti-bacterial. the aim of the present work was to obtai...

Knowledge of phylogenetic relatedness and cytogenetic characteristics can facilitate breeding programs interspecific hybridization in ornamentals. In this study genetic relationships, genome sizes chromosome numbers were determined a collection 82 lavender genotypes, including 15 hybrids. Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism (AFLP) marker analysis revealed 5 clusters, corresponding to the sec...

abstract         background and objective: lavandula stoechas is a species of native and permanent plants in golestan province that belongs to the family lamiaceae. l. stoechas has been used in traditional medicine for treatment of various diseases. the aim of this study was to extract essential oil using steam distillation method from the flowers of l. stoechas collected from jahan-nama region...