Hexanic, methanolic, and hydroalcoholic extracts, and 34 isolated compounds from Vitex polygama Cham. (Lamiaceae, formely Verbenaceae) and Siphoneugena densiflora O. Berg (Myrtaceae) were screened for their trypanocidal effects on bloodstream forms of Trypanosoma cruzi and T brucei, as well as for their enzymatic inhibitory activities on glycosomal glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (gGAP...

According to their accessibility and lower cost-effectiveness when compared synthetic chemical treatments, medicinal wild plants herbs have been used for ages as beneficial tools in the management of many diseases. The popular plant Vitex agnus-castus, which is indigenous Mediterranean region widely distributed Europe, Asia, North Africa, treat a number conditions diseases, including premenstru...

Plant food additives are becoming more and popular broadly applied products, though the information on risks they poses to organism is limited contradictive. Obesity overeating some of commonest health issues around world, people increasingly consuming workability-enhancing preparations as a simple fast method weight control. The plant-based considered less harmful than synthetic chemical ones....

Ethanol extract (ETE) and cold aqueous infusion (CAI) of Vitex leucoxylon leaf were evaluated in a battery of tests to define the activity profile of the plant. CAI depressed SMA, antagonised d-amphetamine stereotypy and oxotremorine tremors, shortened the duration of mice immobility in behavioural 'despair' test and lowered serum total cholesterol level. ETE showed significant inhibition of ca...