flower of rosa damascena mill is widely used in iran for gastrointestinal (gi) disorders. however, its pharmacological action on ileum contraction has not been studied. in this research we have investigated ileum motility effect of essential oil of flower petals of r. damascena growing in kashan, iran, and two of its constituents. the essential oils obtained by hydrodistillation were investigat...

Coriandrum Sativum family Umbelliferae is highly reputed ayurvedic medicinal tree commonly known as the Dhanyaka. It is small sized tree growing throughout India, Italy. Netherlands, Central and Eastern Europe, China and Bangladesh. The different parts of this plant contain monoterpenes, α-pinene, limpnene, γ-terpinene, p-cymene, borneol, citronellol, camphor, geraniol, coriandrin, dihydrocoria...

In view of the lack of an effective pharmacological treatment against human anisakiosis, a disease produced by L(3) larvae of the genus Anisakis present in raw fish, we studied the in vivo larvicidal effect of certain monoterpenic derivatives against L(3) of A. simplex s.l. The aldehydic monoterpene citral and the alcoholic citronellol, when they are administered together to the larvae of the n...

To study the effects of perfume and phytonc;d on GABAA receptors, ionotropic GABAA receptors were expressed in Xlanopus eocytes by iajecting mRNAs that had been prepared from rat whole brain. Essential eil, pevfume and such phytoncid as leaf alcehol, hinokitiel, pinene, eugenol, citronellol and citronellal potentiated the response in the presence of GABA at low cencentratiens (10 and 30 "M), po...

<span>A chemical-based insect repellent such as N, N-diethyl-3-methylbenzamide (DEET) is commonly used against all insects despite its toxicity in humans. Hence, a agent from natural sources of plant essential oil was introduced. Some the plants which have potential are catnip, hairy basil, citronella, vetiver, clove, and citrus. Citronellal, citronellol, geraniol, eugenol, eugenol-acetat...