Background: Despite the medical discoveries of different medicines and advanced ways of treatment, statistics have shown that the number of patients is increasing. This may be due to chemical drugs used in healthcare, agriculture, and diets. This soaring demand in medicines urges us to look for natural sources such as aromatic plants and essential oils, which are rich in efficient compounds. ...

background & aim: salvia spinosa l. is a perennial shrub and aromatic plant belongs to the family lamiaceae. s. spinosa grows wild in some districts of iran. the aim of this study was to identify of the chemical components of s. spinosa in isfahan climatic conditions. experimental: the aerial parts of the plants were collected from isfahan province in 2014. the essential oil was extracted ...

This study aimed to evaluate effects of elevation and phenological stage on essential oil components of Teucrium polium L. and Teucrium orientale L. belonging to the Lamiaceae family. The aerial parts of the grown plants in two ranges of elevation including 2000-2500 and 2500-3000 m above sea level were harvested at three time-points, including end of vegetative, flowering, and seed filling sta...

the essential oils obtained from fresh fruits and terminal branchlets with adherent leaves of cupressus sempervirens l. cv. cereiformis rehd. growing in iran, were analyzed by gc-ms, and screened for bacteriostatic and fungistatic activities. thirteen components were identified in the essential oils. the main constituents of both fruits and leaves were ?-pinene, æ-3-carene, ?-terpenyl acetate a...

BACKGROUND The efficacy of essential oil of Chenopodium ambrosioides flowering aerial parts and its three main active ingredients was evaluated against Blattella germanica male adults. METHODS Composition of essential oil was determined by GC-MS. Topical application bioassay was used to evaluate contact toxicity of essential oil and three main components. Fumigant toxicity of essential oil an...

the chemical composition of the essential oil obtained from the aerial parts of laurus nobilis l. has been examined by gas chromatography (gc) and gc- mass spectrometery (ms). the main components of the oil were identified. 1,8-cineole was the major component in the oil together with b-terpinyl acetate, terpinene-4-ol, a-pinene, b-pinene, p-cymene, linalool and terpinene-4-ylacetate. the essent...

in order to study the effect of drought stress and harvesting stages on quantitative and qualitative yields of coriander (coriandrum sativum l.) this experiment was conducted on split plot based on a randomized completely block design with 3 replications in torbat-e heydariyeh university, iran, during growing season of 2010-2011. treatments were drought stress (in three levels no stress: contro...

Background & Aim: Peppermint (Mentha piperita L.) oil is one of the most popular and widely used as an essential oil. The aim of this study was to identify of the chemical components of peppermint cultivated in Isfahan climatic conditions. Experimental: The aerial parts of the plants were collected from a filed in Meymeh, Isfahan province in 2012. The essential oil was extracted by a ...

ocimum basilicum belongs to lamiaceae family and has been used for the treatment of wide range of diseases in traditional medicine in iranian folk medicine. due to the progressive need to anti-anxiety medications and because of the similarity between o. basilicum and salvia officinalis , which has anti-anxiety effects, we decided to investigate the anxiolytic and sedative activity of hydroalcoh...