Background and objectives:Traditional medicine is an important approach to achieve new therapeutic strategies in basic and clinical pharmacology. Allium hirtifolium Boiss. and Astragalus hamosus L. have been mentioned in Iranian Traditional Medicine references for a kind of dementia with features and symptoms similar to those of Alzheimer's disease (AD). In th...

  Abstract   Objective: Shallots are important part of the diet for many people and there is   long-held belief in their health enhancing properties. The aim of this study was to determine antifungal activity of shallot against reference fungal strains.   Methods: Alcoholic and aqueous extracts of shallot (Allium hirtifolium) were   tested for in vitro antifungal activities against Aspergillus ...

abstract objective: shallots are important part of the diet for many people and there is long-held belief in their health enhancing properties. the aim of this study was to determine antifungal activity of shallot against reference fungal strains. methods: alcoholic and aqueous extracts of shallot (allium hirtifolium) were tested for in vitro antifungal activities against aspergillus fumigatus,...

conclusions allium hirtifolium and z. spina-christi extracts showed the most efficient activity in the inhibition of promastigote growth, but this was not total. the remaining plant extracts indicated ineffective or very weak efficiency on the leishmania promastigotes. there is a possibility of achieving better results by changing the extraction method; determining materials affecting promastig...

Phytochemical constituents, such as total phenol, allicin and pyrovic acid as well as antioxidant activity of thirteen ecotypes of Allium hirtifolium Boiss. from different regions of Iran were evaluated. Average contents of total phenol, allicin and pyrovic acid of bulbs extracts per g fresh weight were 0.647 mg gallic acid equivalent (GAE), 2.127 mg and 84.412 µmol, respectively and antioxidan...