Background & Objective: Traditional medicines have a wide range of pharmacological properties. This work was aimed to investigate the antimicrobial effect of Thymus vulgaris, Matricaria chamomilla, Melissa officinalis and Rhus coriaria extracts against clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Materials and Methods: 180 P. aeruginosa clinical isolates were examined. disc diffusion method as...

In this study, decoctions (herbal tea) of sage (Salvia officinalis L.) and lemon balm (Melissa L), two the important medicinal plants, were analysed for antioxidant activity, antioxidants, minerals (K, Na, Mg, Ca, Fe, Ba, Ag Ga) determined in each dry leaves as well by inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). The activities evaluated scavenging against 1,1-diphenyl-2-picryl-hydraz...

in this research, the effects of organic fertilizers (bovine, sheep, leaf mould and vermicompost fertilizers) combined with foliar application of salicylic acid (sa) at the rate of 0, 10-2, 10-4 and 10-6 m on essential oil percentage and some secondary metabolites of lemon balm were investigated. the experiment was conducted as complete randomized block design with factorial arrangement in pots...

Lemon balm (Melissa officinalis L.) is a plant of the family Lamiaceae. The present study aimed to determine chemical composition lemon essential oil grown in Northeastern Bulgaria, perform comparative analysis its antimicrobial activity with that citral, and surface tension properties. main compounds (concentration above 3%) were: ß-caryophyllene (20.45%), geranial (19.74%), neral (15.81%), ge...