Tea Tree Oil for Chronic Wound Treatment Patricia Culliton, MA, LAc, is director, Integrative Health Services, Hennepin County Medical Center and graduate faculty at the Center for Spirituality and Healing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Linda L. Halcón, PhD, MPH, RN, is an associate professor in the School of Nursing, University of Minnesota, and director of graduate studies at the Cent...

This work provides an optimized extraction approach intended to maximize the recovery of dihydromyricetin (DHM) from Chinese vine tea (Ampelopsis grossedentata) leaves. The presented work adopts a Box-Behnken design as a response surface methodology to understand the role and influence of specific extraction parameters including: time, temperature, and solvent composition/ethanol (%) on DHM fin...

remote villages without sending the patients to anti-rabic centres? A search through literature tells us that nowadays anti-rabic vaccine can be sent out in ampoules to different parts of the country, thus doing away with the necessity of maintaining centralized anti-rabic institutes. Is the potency of the vaccine affected in any way during transit and storage at the ordinary room temperature? ...

Different doses of 12 plant extracts and 6 secondary plant metabolites were incubated for 24 h in diluted ruminal fluid with a 50:50 forage:concentrate diet. Treatments were: control (no additive), plant extracts (anise oil, cade oil, capsicum oil, cinnamon oil, clove bud oil, dill oil, fenugreek, garlic oil, ginger oil, oregano oil, tea tree oil, and yucca), and secondary plant metabolites (an...

Tea tree oil (TTO) is an essential oil, steam-distilled from the Australian native plant, Melaleuca alternifolia. It has a minimum content of terpinen-4-ol and a maximum content of 1, 8-cineole. Terpinen-4-ol is a major TTO component which exhibits strong antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties. Tea tree oil exerts antioxidant activity and has been reported to have broad-spectrum antimic...

Among a set of n coins of two weights (good and bad), and using a balance, we wish to determine the number of bad coins using as few measurements as possible. There is a known adaptive decision tree that answers this question in O((log(n))) measurements, and a slight modification of this decision tree determines the parity of the number of bad coins in O(log n). In this paper, we prove an Ω( √ ...

Fungal contamination in indoor environments has been associated with adverse health effects for the inhabitants. Remediation of fungal contamination requires removal of the fungi present and modifying the indoor environment to become less favourable to growth.  This may include treatment of indoor environments with an antifungal agent to prevent future growth. However there are limited publishe...

The phenolic profile and antioxidant activities of oolong tea extract were investigated after tea was steeped in 90 or 100 C water for 3 or 10 min. The extraction yield increased with increasing temperature and extended steeping time. However, higher temperature and longer time (100 C water for 10 min) led to loss of phenolics. The aqueous extract of oolong tea (AEOT) at 100 C for 3 min exhibit...