Vitex mollis is used in traditional Mexican medicine for the treatment of some ailments. However, there are no studies on what happens to the anti-inflammatory activity or antioxidant properties and total phenolic content of leaves and stem extracts of Vitex mollis during the digestion process; hence, this is the aim of this work. Methanolic, acetonic, and hexanic extracts were obtained from bo...

this experiment was set to study the allelopatic effect of aqueous and alcoholic extracts of artemisia, coriander, eucalyptus and cumin on growth of red root pigweed and lambsquarters weeds at laboratory and field in the university of tehran (karaj-iran) in 2008. the herbal plant samples were ground and powdered for extraction preparation, and were mixed with distilled water in a beaker. the ex...

BACKGROUND The present study was carried out to assess the phytochemical and anti-dermatophytic effect of the leaf and bark extracts of Xylosma longifolium Clos. The leaf and stem bark are used by the indigenous people of Manipur, India for treatment of skin diseases. METHODS The leaves and stem barks of Xylosma longifolium were extracted using petroleum ether, chloroform and methanol respect...

The antimicrobial activity of plant hidroethanolic extracts on bacteria Gram positive, Gram negative, yeasts, Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37 and Mycobacterium bovis was evaluated by using the technique of Agar diffusion and microdilution in broth. Among the extracts evaluated by Agar diffusion, the extract of Bidens pilosa leaf presented the most expressive average of haloes of growth inhibitio...

The petroleum ether and chloroform fractions of ethanol extract of leaf and stem from the plant Passiflora edulis (Fam: Passifloraceae) was subjected to antioxidant, antibacterial and cytotoxic activity. All the fractions showed potent antioxidant activity, of which the chloroform and petroleum ether fraction of stem demonstrated the strongest antioxidant activity with the IC50 value of 51.28 μ...

OBJECTIVES The Ferula genus (Umbelliferae) is a rich source of gum-resin and is much utilized in folklore medicine. This study is designed to examine antioxidant and antihaemolytic activities of Ferula foetida regel flower, stem and leaf extracts. MATERIALS AND METHODS 1,1-Diphenyl-2-picryl hydrazyl radical (DPPH), nitric oxide and H2O2 scavenging activities, Fe2+ chelating ability, reducing ...

the present study was carried out to investigate cytotoxic activity of flower, leaf, stem and root extracts of five artemisia species against breast cancer cell line (mcf7) and human embryonic kidney normal cell line (hek293). the studied artemisia species were a. absinthium , a. vulgaris , a. incana , a. fragrans and a. spicigera . the cytotoxic activity was measured by mtt assay at different ...

Many plants have been known to synthesize active secondary metabolites to protect themselves from microbial attack which have potential therapeutic applications. The soxhlet extracts of leaf and stem of Iresine herbstii using ethanol, acetone, dichloromethane and petroleum ether were investigated for their phytochemical and antibacterial activity against pathogenic bacteria and compared with th...