OBJECTIVE Eucalyptus (Fam. Myrtaceae) is a medicinal plant and various Eucalyptus species possess potent pharmacological actions against diabetes, hepatotoxicity, and inflammation. This study aims to investigate essential oil composition from leaves and flowers of E. microtheca and E. viminalis leaves growing in the Southeast of Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS The aerial parts of these plants wer...

This study was conducted on experimental field at Garmsar zone in Iran during 2010 – 2011 in order to Evaluation of medicinal plant valerian (Valeriana officinalis L.) essential oil compositions cultivated at Garmsar zone in Iran. Sowing date was 20 September and planting densitiy was 80000 plant ha. The volatile constituents of the root part of cultivated Valeriana officinalis were isolated by...

Thymus hyemalis L. and Spanish Thymus vulgaris L. shrubs are characterized by a large chemical intraspecific variability among he plants. This fact makes it difficult to detect real changes occurring in their essential oil composition during the vegetative cycle. ased on this, the clones of T. hyemalis and Spanish T. vulgaris were used in this present work to monitor seasonal variations in the ...

Background The aim of present study was to evaluate antileishmanial effects of Lavandula angustifolia (L. angustifolia) and Rosmarinus officinalis (R. officinalis) medicinal plants essential oils and nano-emulsions on Leishmania major (L. major). Methods The present study was performed in Leishmaniasis Reference Lab at Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Iran during 2016-2017. The IC50...

Medicinal plants and probiotics both have very high potential in terms of their antimicrobial activity against antibiotic-resistant enteric pathogens. The probiotics being enteric microorganism do not have any parasitic effect on human beings. They have been an integral part of daily food for centuries. They have been shown to have health beneficiary properties. The probiotics retard the growth...

ABSTRACT Cultivation of medicinal plants with the irrigation agricultural effluents might be great importance to save fresh water resources, extend cultivation area and increase economic feasibility. We investigated effects saline fish farm effluent water, diluted gypsum-supplemented effluent, natural freshwater as a control in lysimeters. Beside plant growth parameters, macronutrient sodium co...

Background: Summer savory (Satureja hortensis L.) is one of the most important medicinal and spice plants cultivated in many parts of the world. Objective: A greenhouse experiment was conducted to study the effects of FeSO4 and citric acid application on the morphological traits and essential oil content and its component, gamma-terpinene in S. hortensis. Methods: FeSO4 in four levels (0, 3, ...

Zataria multiflora is one of the valuable medicinal plants belonging to the Lamiaceae family. The aromatic aerial parts of this species are traditionally used by endemic folks to flavor some native foods, also for numerous therapeutic functions. In the present study, different plant organs (leaf, flower, stalk and whole aerial organ) were collected from Fanuj region of Sistan & Balouchestan pro...

Article history: Received on: 03/09/2016 Accepted on: 06/12/2016 Available online: 20/03/2017 Thymus vulgaris L. (T. vulgaris) a significant aromatic plant with around 100 species in the world is widely used for medicinal purposes as well as in culinary dishes. The genus Thymus are important medicinal plants, highly recommended due to a variety of therapeutic properties of their essential oils,...