conclusions: the results of this study confirmed aromatherapy with c. aurantium blossom oil as a simple, inexpensive, noninvasive, and effective intervention to reduce anxiety during labor. results: before the intervention, both groups had same levels of anxiety. however, the levels of anxiety at dilations of 3-4 and 6-8 cm were significantly lower in the aromatherapy group compared with the co...

There have been efforts to overcome the problem in treatment of cancer using medicinal plants. It has been shown that Citrus essential oil of contains different terpens with antitumor activities. In this study we sought to determine the cytotoxicity of essential oils of Iranian Citrus limon (L.), C. medica (L.), C. sinsensis (L.) peels on cancer cell lines. Essential oils were prepared by hydr...

Alcoholic and water extracts of many medicinal plants are commonly used in German folk medicine and other countries as antispasmodics. However, so far no data on dose relationships or comparisons of the antispasmodic effects with reference substances have been available for most of these plant extracts. Using acetylcholine as the stimulating agent, the antispasmodic effect of preparations ...

Efficacy of essential oils extracted from peel of various citrus species; Citrus reticulata, Citrus sinensis, Citrus paradisi and Citrus grandis were determined against the adults of Callosobruchus chinensis and Tribolium castaneum as well as against the larvae of Trogoderma granarium in order to find out safe alternatives of high toxics. Four concentrations of each oil; 2%, 4%, 6% and 8% were ...

The current study was conducted to test the efficiency of vegetative part (plant leaves) plant species shrubs and trees involved in forming semi-artificial vegetation city Baghdad, Karkh, uptake accumulating lead element that pollutes air atmosphere. Five sampling sites were selected: Al-Kadhimiyah, Al-Mansour, Al-Ma'aml (Al-Salam district), Al-Adl, Al-Ameriya district intersections (Al-Seklat)...

‘Aliza’ is a new pomelo × mandarin hybrid (Citrus maxima, cv. Red Chandler Citrus reticulata, Ora) developed by the Israeli citrus breeding program at Volcani Institute. Here, we aimed to characterize quality and flavor of fruit as compared other commercial fruit, specifically (C. maxima), grapefruit paradisi), orange sinensis) reticulata). fruits have similar size grapefruits, but thinner peel...