Several essential oil samples from dried flower-heads of Chamomilla recutita (L.) Rauschert, grown and commercially available around Curitiba metropolitan area, South of Brazil, were analyzed by GC-MS and the chemical constituents were compared with an Egyptian sample obtained under similar conditions and used as a control. The local grown herbs showed levels of essential oil below the standard...

Dermatological diseases of the scalp significantly affect life quality people. According to statistical data, seborrheic dermatitis (SD) is most common dermatological disease in more than 50% population all over world. The medicines for treatment SD are synthetic antimicrobial substances with high efficiency, but their regular use changes a biodiversity microflora and determines subsequent resi...

Matricaria recutita, once it has been called as Marticaria chamomilla, Chamomilla recutita, and Chamomilum nobile family Asteraceae. The main constituents of this plant include the terpenoids α-bisabolol and its oxides and azulenes, including chamazulene. Matricaria recutita shows different pharmacological activities like anti-inflammatory, anticancer, treatment of stress and depression, anti-a...

BACKGROUND The current chemotherapy for cutaneous leishmaniosis (CL) has a series of drug limitations such as toxic side effects, long duration, high costs and drug resistance, which requires the development of new drugs or effective alternatives to the CL treatment. Essential oils (EOs) are complex mixtures of secondary metabolites from various plants. It has been shown that several EOs, or th...

pycnocycla spinosa aerial parts were collected weekly during four-month growth. hydrodistillation and gas chromatography coupled with mass spectroscopy techniques were used for essential oil and sesquiterpenes investigation. thirty-four components were identified, of which the characteristic sesquiterpenes were a -copaene, caryophyllene, a -humulene, b-ionene, d-cadinene, a -calacorene, caryoph...