Aerial parts of Veronica species are used in Romanian traditional medicine for the treatment of various conditions like kidney diseases, cough, and catarrh, and are known for their wound-healing properties. In the present study, the phenolic and sterolic content and the antioxidant and antimicrobial activities of three Veronica species (Plantaginaceae), V. officinalis L., V. teucrium L. and V. ...

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...