Herpes simplex is a common viral infection of the skin or mucous membranes. The lesions caused by this infection are often painful, burning, or pruritic, and tend to recur in most patients. Short-term treatment with acyclovir can accelerate the healing of an acute outbreak, and continuous acyclovir therapy is often prescribed for people with frequent recurrences. While this drug can reduce the ...

Epileptic seizures are a consequence of uncontrolled neuronal discharge and demand urgent prolonged treatment. Due to lack potent low-risk drugs that could prevent seizures, efforts underway discover new drugs, plant metabolites often considered valuable candidates in this search. Lemon balm ( Melissa officinalis L., Lamiaceae) is world-renowned medicinal affecting central nervous system functi...

Introduction. Lemon balm has been used for centuries due to its strong sedative, antimicrobial and spasmolytic effects. Besides different types of extracts essential oils, hydrolates (by-products obtained during oil extraction) are preparations aromatic medicinal plants with potential pharmacological activity. Aim. To estimate Melissa officinalis leaves hydrolate effects on gastric motility. Me...

The usefulness of 3 herbicides and flame weeding in lemon balm sown directly into the field was assessed a two-year experiment. Glufosinate-ammonium (600 g∙ha–1) (90 kg propane∙ha–1) were applied 12–13 days after sowing, i.e. shortly weed emergence 4 before crop emergence. Bentazon (960 fluazifop-P-butyl (150 sprayed approximately weeks during balm, when weeds cotyledon – 2–4 true leaves stage....

The methanolic extracts, infusions, decoctions and hydrosols of six plants were investigated for their total phenolic contents, antioxidant and antimicrobial activities: Mentha piperita (Peppermint), Thymus vulgaris (thyme), Melissa officinalis (lemon balm), Ocimum basilicum (basil), Rosmarinus officinalis (rosemary) and Salvia officinalis (sage) (Lamiaceae). Total phenolic contents were determ...

A simple procedure for the voltammetric detection of antioxidative activity of plant extracts based on the protection from DNA damage at the electrode surface is reported. A disposable electrochemical DNA biosensor fabricated as a carbon-based screen-printed electrode modified by a surface layer of the calf thymus double stranded (ds) DNA was used as a working electrode in combination with a si...