Plant remedies, despite their innocuity reputation, are implicated in adverse events. The present review focuses on 30 popular herbs which are associated with severe and sometimes fatal hepatotoxicity: Actaea racemosa, Aloe barbadensis, Atractylis gummifera, Callilepsis laureola, Camellia sinensis, Centella asiatica, Chelidonium majus, Ephedra sinica, Garcinia cambogia, Hypericum perforatum, La...

This study investigated the vitamin contents and health benefits of nine wild plants consumed as food, medicine, or animal feed in around Elazığ Malatya, Turkey. The introduced Rheum ribes, Gundelia tournefortii, Tragopogon reticulatus, Urtica dioica, Asphodelus aestivus, Medicago sativa, Nasturtium officinale, Mentha pulegium, Capsella pastoris. results showed that were common ingredients Turk...

findings in relation to the inhibitory effects of natural substances against microorganisms showed that herbal products may be alternatives to synthetic and chemical drugs due to their significant therapeutic effects. the pennyroyal ( mentha pulegium ) as an important medicinal plant, belongs to the lamiaceae family is applied in the pharmaceutical and food industries. in recent years, plant ti...

this experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of different levels of dried aerial parts powderand extract of pennyroyal­ (mentha pulegium) medicinal plant on performance, egg traits, blood biochemical and immunity parameters of laying hens. two-hundred-fifty-two hi-line (w36 strain) laying hens from 46 until 58 weeks of age were used in a completely randomized design in 7 treatments and...

An overview of the studies carried out in our laboratories on supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) of volatile oils from seven aromatic plants: pennyroyal (Mentha pulegium L.), fennel seeds (Foeniculum vulgare Mill.), coriander (Coriandrum sativum L.), savory (Satureja fruticosa Béguinot), winter savory (Satureja montana L.), cotton lavender (Santolina chamaecyparisus) and thyme (Thymus vulgari...

There is a growing interest in food industry to replace the synthetic chemicals by the natural products with bioactive properties from plant origin. The aim of this study was to determine the chemical composition of Mentha pulegium essential oil and to characterize the antimicrobial activities of the essential oil. The essential oil of Mentha pulegium was analyzed by GC-MS. The evaluation of th...