Myrtus, commonly called myrtle, is a genus of flowering plants in the Myrtaceae family. This study aimed to review myrtle’s pharmaceutical, food, and other uses. The pharmacological effects myrtle for antioxidant, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory activities, reduction COVID-19 symptoms, anti-diabetic animal model, hepatoprotective rat antihypertensive, control intestinal helminthiasis mice inhi...

Myrtus communis L (Myrtaceae) is one of the popular drugs being used in the Unani system of phytomedicine since ancient Greece period. From time immemorial, different parts of this plant and essential oil have been used for a variety of purposes such as cosmetics (hair fall control), flavoring of food and drinks as well as extensive therapeutic purposes. Ethnobotanical information revealed that...

Based on the collected ethnobotanical data from the Traditional Medicine and Materia Medica Research Center (TMRC), Iran, Myrtus communis L. (myrtle) was selected for the assessment of in vitro and in vivo antimalarial and cytotoxic activities. Methanolic extract of myrtle was prepared from the aerial parts and assessed for antiplasmodial activity, using the parasite lactate dehydrogenase (pLDH...

Two different extraction methods were used for a comparative study of algerian myrtle leaf essential oils: solvent-free-microwave-extraction (SFME) and conventional hydrodistillation (HD). Essential oils analyzed by GC and GC-MS presented 51 components constituting 97.71 and 97.39% of the total oils, respectively. Solvent-Free-Microwave-Extract Essential oils SFME-EO were richer in oxygenated c...

the following case which had all the clinical phenomena of scarlatina. Myrtle, T., cet. 6, born in India, both parents European, resident of Saraghat, came down to Calcutta for a few days with her mother and a sick sister, who was admitted into the General Hospital for fever. The patient Myrtle lived at the house of her aunt near Ballygunge. The mother started for Sara with Myrtle a few daj's l...

Myrtle is an evergreen shrub or small tree widespread throughout the Mediterranean region. In Turkey, both cultivated and wild forms, differing in plant and fruit size and fruit composition, can be found. These differences may have resulted from the domestication of the cultivated form over a long period of time. We investigated whether wild and cultivated forms of myrtle differ in karyological...

Oil-in-water nanoemulsions were formulated using sunflower oil mixed with each of the essential oils Tasmannia lanceolata (Tasmanian pepper leaf [TPL]), Backhousia citriodora (lemon myrtle [LM]) and Syzygium anisatum (anise [AM]) stabilized Tween 80 ultrasonication. An oil-surfactant ratio 3:1 was found to produce lowest emulsion droplet sizes 96.6 nm for LM, 122.2 AM 131.8 TPL. Increase in sur...