Fungal diseases have always been a major problem for tomato crops. Growers generally use chemical fungicides to treat this type of diseases. However, these products are toxic the environment and consumer, especially if pre-harvest interval is not respected. The present study aims find non-polluting alternatives. Five plant extracts ( Peganum harmala, Ocimum basilicum, Caralluma europaea, Nerium...

background medicinal plants have been used traditionally in golestan province (north of iran), against mycobacterium tuberculosis or the clinical signs of tuberculosis (tb). objectives this study aimed to define the inhibitory effects of ethanolic extracts of six of these medicinal plants against mycobacterium tuberculosis. materials and methods peganum harmala (seed extract), punica granatum (...

conclusions according to the current study results, it may be concluded that ethanol extract of p. harmala is efficient in the treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis, and the efficiency is comparable with that of glucantime. results the results showed that ethanol extract of p. harmala had good therapeutic efficacy in treatment of lesions in mice (p < 0.05), and the efficacy was significant in th...

Objective: Peganum harmala (P. harmala), “Espand” in Persian, has small seeds and has been used in traditional medicine as emmenagogue and an abortifacient. It has various pharmacological effects such as antifungal, antibacterial, hypothermic, anticancer, antinociceptive, and reversible monoamine oxidase inhibition. Case details: This case was a 45 years old woman who ingested about 50 grams se...

Background: Sustainable and commercial production of secondary metabolites is a critical issue when dealing with its clinical application. Efforts are still being made to look for biotic or abiotic elicitors with more efficient and universal effects on the improvement of secondary metabolites. Objective: In order to evaluate the suitability of different biotic elicitors on P. harmala L. cell...

the enzymatic potential of the cultured plant cells can be employed for bioconversion purposes. plant enzymes are able to catalyze regio- and stereo-specific reactions, and therefore can be applied for the production of desired substances. the biotransformation of foreign substrates with suspension cells of peganum harmala was tested with (±) phenylethyl propionate. the callus cultures of pegan...

BACKGROUND Tissue damage is associated with pain, which is an alarming sign. Aspirin and morphine have been widely used in recent decades for management of pain. Medicinal herbs have been in use for treatment of different diseases for centuries. Many of these herbs possess analgesic activity with relatively less incidences of adverse effects. The strong positive correlation of alkaloids in medi...

AIM To extend previous reviews by assessing the acute systemic toxicity and psychological hazards of a dimethyltryptamine and beta-carboline brew (ayahuasca/hoasca) used in religious ceremonies. METHOD A systematic literature search, supplemented by interviews with ceremony participants. RESULTS No laboratory animal models were located that tested the acute toxicity or the abuse potential o...

Peganum harmala L., also known as Syrian rue or Pègano, is a herbaceous plant belonging to the Zygohpyllaceae family, and is widely used in traditional medicine. The chemical composition of essential oils of P. harmala seeds from five different regions of Northern Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia) was studied by GC and GC-MS analyses. A total of 105 compounds were identified, ...