This study investigated the cytotoxicity of 55 species of plants. Each plant was rated as medicinal, or nonmedicinal based on the existing literature. About 79% of the medicinal plants showed some cytotoxicity, while 75% of the nonmedicinal plants showed bioactivity. It appears that Asteraceae, Labiatae, Pinaceae, and Chenopodiaceae were particularly active against human cervical cancer cells. ...

The goal of this paper is to describe beliefs and treatments for specific forms of Paralysis (falij) and other nervous disorders in the Middle East. Themes to be investigated include, the traditional medicinal practices used to treat Paralysis, as well as their curative methods using traditional herbal medicine. This paper is based on first and secondary sources; interviews with traditional hea...

Samples of sage leaves, Salvia triloba (Labiatae), growing ~ ~ i l d in different regions of Greece ere analjzed to determine the essential oil content and the physicochemical consram of the oil. The qualitari~le and quantitati~~e ana/ysis by gas-liquid-chron~atograp h ~ . s h o ~ ~ s variations in the qualitjb of the oils and in the amounts of their components. In all samples the basic compone...

The oil obtained by hydrodistillation of aerial parts of Phlomis elliptica Benth. (Labiatae), which is a rare shrub endemic to Iran, was subjected to GC-FID and GC-MS analyses. Thirty-one constituents, making up about 98.4 % of the total composition of oil, were characterized. Monoterpenes, sesquiterpenes and other compounds constituted 13.4 %, 78.9 % and 6.1 % of the essential oil, respectivel...

The antimicrobial activity of the methanol extracts of the dried flowering aerial parts of Stachys byzantina, S. inflata, S. lavandulifolia and S. laxa (Labiatae) were studied using the disc diffusion method and determination of minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values against Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus sanguis, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeroginosa, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Asp...

Four new neo-clerodane diterpenoids, scutebarbatines W-Z (1-4), were isolated from the ethanol extract of Scutellaria barbata (Labiatae), and their structures were elucidated on the basis of extensive spectroscopic studies. In addition, the proposed structures of at least seven 13-spiro subtype neo-clerodanes: scutehenanine B (5), scutebarbatine G (6), 6-O-nicotinoylscutebarbatine G (7), barbat...

abstract stachys is one of the largest genera in the flowering plant family. it is in the subfamily lamioideae (labiatae), spreading and growing in different parts of iran. the purpose of this study was to investigate the chemical properties of stachyslavandulifolia as well as the essence, ethanol and methanol extracts of this plant. it was collected from chulus located in the west of mazandara...