AIM To compare the antibacterial effect of hydro alcoholic extract of Salvia officinalis, Pimpinella anisum, Satureja hortensis, Rhus coriaria, Carum copticum, Mentha longifolia, Achillea millefolium against Streptococcus mutans, Lactobacillus rhamnosus and Actinomyces viscosus through two in vitro methods. METHODS In this experimental study, hydro-alcoholic extracts have been prepared from t...

Introduction: This review focuses on the efficacy and safety of Iranian medicinal plants found effective in the management of diabetes in humans and animals. Material and methods: EMBASE, Scopus, PubMed, Web of Science, Google Scholar, and IranMedex databases were searched up to 8 October 2007. The search terms were “diabetes” and “plant”, “herb”, “traditional”, and “natural” or “herbal medicin...

Given the inappropriate use of antibiotics and prevalence of resistant bacteria, there is urgentneed for antibacterial drugs that have fewer side effects than antibiotics. Satureja bachtiaricais a medicinal plant which had many uses in traditional medicine. In this research, the ethanolextract of leave of Satureja bachtiarica is tested on coagulase-negative staphylococcus strains.Materials and ...

this work analyzes the effects of satureja khuzestanica essential oil (skeo) on the thyroid and antioxidant system, assessed by measuring levels of tri-iodothyronine (t3), thyroxine (t4), thyroid-stimulating hormone (tsh), malondialdehyde (mda), reduced glutathione (gsh), and glutathione peroxidase (gpx) activity. forty adult male sprague dawley rats (225 ± 25 g) were divided into five equal gr...

conclusions the excellent antimicrobial activities of the tested eos might be due to their major phenolic or alcoholic monoterpenes with known antimicrobial activities. hence, these eos can be possibly used as an antimicrobial agent in treatment and control of oral pathogens. results the tested eos inhibited the growth of examined oral pathogens at concentrations of 0.015-16 µl/ml. among the ex...

From the ethyl acetate and methanol extract of the aerial parts of Satureja atropatana Bonge, which belongs to the Lamiaceae family, four flavonoids were isolated. Their structures were determined to be 5,6,3'-trihydroxy-7,8,4'-trimethoxyflavone (1), 5,6-dihydroxy-7,8,3',4'-tetramethoxyflavone or 5-desmethoxynobiletin (2), 5,6,4'-trihydroxy-7,8,3'-trimethoxyflavone or thymonin (3) and luteolin ...

Herbal medicines can be used as the potential sources of anti-oxidative compounds to help the treatment of diseases associated to oxidative stress. In this paper, the Ferric Reducing Antioxidant Power (FRAP) activity of four Lamiaceae herbal extracts, which traditionally applied in oxidative stress related diseases, has been evaluated and total phenolics contents of these extracts determined by...