Tea obtained from leaves of Cymbopogon citratus (DC) Stapf is used for its anxiolytic, hypnotic and anticonvulsant properties in Brazilian folk medicine. Essential oil (EO) from fresh leaves was obtained by hydrodistillation and orally administered to Swiss male mice 30 min before experimental procedures. EO at 0.5 or 1.0 g/kg was evaluated for sedative/hypnotic activity through pentobarbital s...

The antiproliferative and antioxidant potential of Cymbopogon citratus (Lemon grass) extracts were investigated. The extracts were isolated by solvent maceration method and thereafter subjected to antiproliferative activity test on five different cancer cells: human colon carcinoma (HCT-116), breast carcinoma (MCF-7 and MDA-MB 231), ovarian carcinoma (SKOV-3 and COAV), and a normal liver cell l...

Five Indian medicinal plants namely Acorus calamus L, Pelargonium graveolens L, Cymbopogon martini L, Cyambopogon nardus L and Cymbopogon citratus L. were studied for their enzymatic and non enzymatic free radical scavenging properties. Enzymatic ROS scavengers: superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase were observed maximum respectively in A. calamus (3.59±0.22 μ mol/min/mg/protein) and P. grave...

Karies gigi adalah masalah utama bagi kesehatan dan rongga mulut di Indonesia, salah satu penyebabnya mikroorganisme, yaitu Streptococcus mutans. Oleh karena itu diperlukan agen antibakteri untuk mencegah perkembangannya. Belakangan ini beberapa bahan alam telah dikaji terbukti memiliki aktifitas antibakteri, diantaranya tanaman sereh (Cymbopogon citratus) sirih hijau (Piper betle L.). Peneliti...

Composting of Palm Oil Mill Sludge (POMS) with sawdust was conducted in natural aerated reactor. Composting using natural aerated reactor is cheap and simple. The goal of this study is to observe the potential of composting process and utilizing compost as media for growing Cymbopogun citratus, one of Malaysia herbal plant. The highest maximum temperature achieved is about 40 degrees C and to i...

Five essential oils (EO) extracted from Cymbopogon citratus, Monodora myristica, Ocimum gratissimum, Thymus vulgaris and Zingiber officinale were investigated for their inhibitory effect against three food spoilage and mycotoxin producing fungi, Fusarium moniliforme, Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus fumigatus. Five strains of each fungus were tested. The agar dilution technique was used to de...

Cymbopogon citratus, universally known as Lemongrass is a small herbaceous plant of Poaceae family. It used traditional medicine for treatment numerous diseases such fever, sore throats, cough, laryngitis, bronchitis, oral candiasis, body ache, head digestive problems etc. This study deals with the antioxidant activities DPPH and FRAP mehanol extract lemon grass leaves followed by quantitative ...

The concentration and the chemical composition of the essential oils obtained from different samples of Cymbopogon citratus were evaluated. Among the 12 samples investigated (11 dried leaf samples and fresh plant leaves), seven presented essential oil concentrations within the threshold established by the Brazilian legislation. The moisture content was also determined and the majority of the sa...

Antimicrobial activities of the leaf extracts of Cymbopogon citatrus (lemongrass) and Vernonia amygdalina (bitter leaf) and the seed extracts of Garcinia kola (bitter kola) were carried out. G. kola had effect only on Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli with no inhibition on Candida albicans. Ethanol, cold water and hot water extracts of Vernonia amygdalina and Cymbopogon citratus showed...

In recent years, the demands on drug discovery process have been increased dramatically, partly because of the necessity to recognize novel target that are both pertinent to disease and chemically tractable. The emergence of bioinformatics gives room to investigate diseases at the molecular level using computational techniques.The present work was to perform a molecular docking analysis of pote...