The present study provides a comprehensive data on the antioxidant, antimicrobial and neutrophil-modulating activities of extracts from six medicinal plants--blackberry (Rubus fruticosus) leaves, chokeberry (Aronia melanocarpa) leaves, hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna) leaves, lady's mantle (Alchemilla glabra) aerial parts, meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria) aerial parts and raspberry (Rubus idaeus)...

Crataegus monogyna, commonly known as hawthorn, is notorious for having different ethnopharmacological applications. The antioxidant activity of methanolic extracts from its flowers and fruits in several stages of development was formerly reported by us. Therefore it is believable that the extracts of its botanical parts might have great potential to be incorporated in innovative pharmaceutical...

1 National University of Pharmacy, Pushkinskaya 53, Kharkov, Ukraine 2 Kaunas Medical University, A. Mickevièiaus 9, LT-44307 Kaunas, Lithuania The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of the infusion produced from lesser periwinkle (Vinca minor), blossoms and fruits of monopistillate hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna), motherwort (Leonorus cardiaca), knotweed (Polygonum aviculare) and fi...

The objectives of this study were to examine the foliar sensitivity to ozone exposure of 12 tree, shrub, and herbaceous species native to southern Switzerland and determine the seasonal cumulative ozone exposures required to induce visible foliar injury. The study was conducted from the beginning of May through the end of August during 2000 and 2001 using an open-top chamber research facility l...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS In some dicotyledonous leaves and leaflets, the secondary veins run more-or-less straight to the margins and have well-defined lengths. For a given half-lamina of length L, an equation, previously proposed, relates the lengths of these veins, p, to the distances, l, between the leaf tip and their insertions on the midrib: p = B2(x+y)l(x)(L - l)(y)/L(x+y-1), where B, x and y ...

Crataegus cinsine ait Rosaceae ailesinin geleneksel tıpta kullanılan ve en önemli yenilebilir bitkilerindendir. Bu bitkiler içerdikleri farklı biyoaktif doğal bileşenler sayesinde çeşitli fizyolojik farmakolojik aktivitelere sahiptirler. çalışmada Elazığ ilinde yetişen dört türünün (C. monogyna JACQ., C. tanacetifolia (LAM.) PERS, orientalis PALLAS EX BIEB., sinaica BOISS.) toplam fenolik madde...

This paper discusses the traditional consumption of wild edible plants in the rural communities of the Campoo (Cantabria), a region in northern Spain. Through semi-structured interviews with key informants, data on the perception, gathering, preparation and use of 60 edible wild plant species were collected. Social, economic and cultural factors need to be taken into account when trying to unde...

One important plant of the Rosaceae family which is commonly used as phytopharmaceutical in Europe and North America is Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna). The fruits, the leaves together with their extracts are applied in patients suffering mild cardiac disorders or nervosity. Since the leaves as well as the berries act as diuretics a sufficient micronutrient supply has to be guaranteed. On the oth...