The present study aimed to evaluate acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitory and antioxidant activities of Lamiaceae medicinal plants growing wild in Croatia. Using Ellman's colorimetric assay all tested ethanolic extracts and their hydroxycinnamic acid constituents demonstrated in vitro AChE inhibitory properties in a dose dependent manner. The extracts of Mentha x piperita, M. longifolia, Salvi...

Plant extracts are proved to possess many positive effects in cancer treatment. While many of commonly used therapeutics rely on cytotoxic methodologies, much less are based on positive influence on migrating potential of cancer cells, i.e. on antimetastatic grounds. Here, according to our knowledge, for the first time was investigated influence of Teucrium montanum L. and T. polium L. methanol...

abstract background:  primary dysmenorrhea is a prevalent problem and its effects decrease the quality of life in many women across the world. due to the side-effects of synthetic drugs, there is an increasing trend toward herbal medicine. the aim of this study was to research the effect of teucrium polium compared to placebo on the pain duration of dysmenorrhea.   materials and methods: this t...

Crude extracts or phytochemicals obtained from some plants have potential anti-cancer properties. Teucrium persicum is an Iranian endemic plant belonging to the Lamiaceae family which has traditionally been used to relieve abdominal pains. However, the anti-cancer properties of this species of the Teucrium genus have not been investigated previously. In this study, we have used a highly invasiv...

Perceptions of safety and/or cultural mores prompt individuals to seek herbal slimming aids in preference to conventional dietary, physical activity and medication-based protocols. In recent years, terpenoid-containing dietary supplements have been implicated in causing severe and sometimes fatal hepatotoxicity. Teucrium polium (germander) was the first of these herbal products to be clearly li...

Teucrioside, 9′-decarboxyrosmarinic acid 4′-O-α-rhamnosyl-(1‴→6‴)-O-β-galactosyl-(1‴→4″)-Oα-rhamnoside is a natural phenolic compound. It has been isolated and identified from the genus Teucrium. Teucrium widely used in traditional medicine for its antioxidant, diuretic, antiulcer, antitumor, anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic antibacterial properties. Since silver nanoparticles have superior phy...

This study was designed to examine the chemical composition and in-vitro antioxidant activity of the essential oil and methanolic extract of Teucrium orientale subsp. taylori. The GC and GC-MS analysis of the essential oil resulted in determination of 40 components representing 96.4% of the oil. The major constituents of the oil were linalool (28.6%), caryophyllene oxide (15.6%), 1,8-cineol (4....

BACKGROUND Teucrium polium (T. polium; locally called 'kalpooreh') is a herbal medicine with therapeutic effects against diabetes and fungal infections, and it has analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects as well. It is also used traditionally as a remedy in treating headache, dysmenorrhea, convulsions and gastrointestinal disorders. Moreover, its hypoglycemic, hypolipidemic and antibacterial ef...