in order to quantify and simulate the response of lemon balm (melissa officinalis l.) plants to cadmium (cd) concentrations in the soil, a pot experiment was conducted using completely randomized design (crd) with three replicates during 2014. the treatment consisted of twelve cd concentrations from 0 to 300 mg kg-1 of cd in the soil which was mixed with the experimental soil before planting. l...

BACKGROUND In many cases, myocardial infarction leads to arrhythmia. Since antioxidant agents have an important protective role in heart disease, these compounds in medicinal plants are used in traditional medicine. Lemon balm extract, compared to other plants of the lamiaceae family, has been proven to have significant amounts of antioxidant compounds. The aim of this study was to assess the e...

Over the last decades polyetiological metabolic diseases such as obesity and type 2 diabetes have emerged as a global epidemic. Efficient strategies for prevention and treatment include dietary intervention and the development of validated nutraceuticals. Safe extracts of edible plants provide a resource of structurally diverse molecules that can effectively interfere with multifactorial diseas...

  Bibliographical studies have been done on plants that are used as analgesics in traditional medicine, and Mellissa officinalis or Lemon Balm (LB) that there are some evidence indicating for its application as analgesics or its probable analgesic effect was selected for evaluation of analgesic effect by tail-flick test in mice. After scientific identification, the leaves and flowered branches ...

Lemon balm (Melissa officinalis L.) has many biological effects but especially important is its neuroprotective activity. The aim of the study is to produce different extracts of Melissa officinalis and analyse their chemical composition and biological properties on rat glioblastoma C6 cells. Results revealed that rosmarinic acid (RA) is the predominant compound of lemon balm extracts. RA has c...

background & aim: nowdays consumers prefer to eat healthier foods, therefore producers and researchers are involved to improve the variety, quality, taste of food products. lemon balm is a perennial, aromatic, herb that contains many phenolic compounds. in this research the effect of additing lemon balm powder (by reducing of wheat flour in formulation, instead) on qualities of sponge cakes...

Background & Aim: Nowdays consumers prefer to eat healthier foods, therefore producers and researchers are involved to improve the variety, quality, taste of food products. Lemon balm is a perennial, aromatic, herb that contains many phenolic compounds. In this research the effect of additing lemon balm powder (by reducing of wheat flour in formulation, instead) on qualities of sponge cakes wer...

background & aim: in order study the effect of thiobacillus, sulphur and organic materials on vegetative growth and essence production in lemon balm (melissa officinalis l.) was conducted in pots in field condition at shahrekord, iran on 2008. experimental: the factors were ten soil treatments inclusive 200 kg/ha sulphur, 400 kg/ha sulphur, 600 kg/ha sulphur, 200 kg/ha sulphur + thiobacill...