in this study, anti alternaria solani effects of essential oils of 11 medicinal and aromatic plant species belonging to four families collected from the west of iran were investigated based on agar dilution method with five replications at concentration of 1.0 µl/ml. the results showed that the highest inhibitory effect belonged to oliveria decumbens, cinnamomum zeylanicum, carum copticum and t...

the genus thymus l. belongs to the lamiaceae family, consist of about 215 species of herbaceous perennials and small shrubs in the world. they originated from mediterranean region. this genus is presented in iranian flora by 14 species, including: t. daenensis, t. carmanicus, t. fallax, t. persicus, t. trautvetteri, t. migricus, t. kotschyanus, t. pubesens, t. nummularius, t. transcaspicus, t. ...

objective: despite toxic effects of some essential oils, their use is not under control. with a view to increasing trend of utilisation of herbal products, some biological aspects of thymus daenensis are repoted here for the first time. materials and methods: antimicrobial properties using disk diffusion and dilution tests, nitric oxide radical scavenging by marcocci et al method and cytotoxic...

Brucea javanica is a traditional herbal medicine in China, and its antitumor activities are of research interest. Brucea javanica oil, extracted with ether and refined with 10% ethyl alcohol from Brucea javanica seed, was used to treat hepatoma H22-bearing mice in this study. The antitumor effect and probable mechanisms of the extracted Brucea javanica oil were studied in H22-bearing mice by WB...

Steam distillation of essential oils of aerial parts of Thymus capitatus and Marrubium vulgare L. collected at North cost of Egypt yielded 0.5% and 0.2%, respectively. Results of Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analyses of the two samples identified 96.27% and 90.19% of the total oil composition for T. capitatus and M. vulgare, respectively. The two oil samples appeared dominated by the ox...