Lippia javanica occurs naturally in central, eastern, and southern Africa and has also been recorded in the tropical Indian subcontinent. The potential of L. javanica as herbal or recreational tea and herbal medicine and its associated phytochemistry and biological properties are reviewed. The extensive literature survey revealed that L. javanica is used as herbal tea and has ethnomedicinal app...

The use of natural biopesticides, specifically essential oils, is being explored as an alternative solution to protect stored foodstuffs. This study focuses on a formulation phosphogypsum–Pinus halepensis oil pesticidal product. First, the chemical composition was determined using gas chromatography with mass spectrometry (GC-MS), while phosphogypsum (waste from phosphate mining industry) analy...

Sri Lankan Agriculturehas a very long history and was based on very successful and environmentally healthy principles.The insect Pest management practices known as ―Kem‖ methods were very successfully performed with the use of plant based materials and cultural practices, in the form of religion based rituals. Even without a distinct knowledge of the chemical constituents of the plants they wer...