Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia Miller) | Semantic Scholar (2024)

The present study showed that lavender syrup is an effective treatment for COVID-19-induced OD and it is suggested to conduct further studies with larger sample size.

The review discusses the genetic diversity of Lavandula species in relation to the geographic area, occurrence, and morphogenetic factors and the role of microRNAs in secondary-metabolites biosynthesis is described.

The study remarks that Lavandula angustifolia essential oil (LEO) in daily cutaneous pharmaceutical form application, during two month, reduces the intensity of spot skin melanin, exprimed through mexametric values.

This review underlines BSE as a promising alternative to NSAIDs, which warrants investigation in further pharmacological studies and clinical trials and presents different perspectives and gives a differentiated insight into the possible mechanisms of action of BSE in humans.

Medicinal plants are used for self-medication and professional health care and despite different underlying medicinal concepts and philosophies, herbalists largely agree on the most important medicinal plant species.

L lavender oil inhalation is a safe and feasible anxiolytic intervention for treating people with diverse types of anxiety and further studies are necessary to confirm the validity and elucidate the anxiety-reducing mechanisms of lavender inhalation.

The present review focuses on a subset of medicinally important aromatic plants with radioprotective activity, mainly exploited for essential oil extraction for applications in industries, for example, in cosmetics, flavoring and fragrance, spices, pesticides, repellents and herbal beverages.

The results showed that LA in both watery and Alcohol extractions can inhibit both pathogenic and non-pathogen bacteria whereas active compounds are alcohol soluble.

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Testees chez des rats normoglycemiques ou presentant une hyperglycemie provoquee artificiellement par 2 substances differentes: glucose et alloxane s'agit quant au mecanisme de l'action hypoglyceMiante de ces plantes.

A significant interaction exists with pentobarbital: the sleeping time is increased and the asleeping time shortened in mice Swiss.

The effects of lavender oil on mast cell‐mediated immediate‐type allergic reactions in mice and rats are studied to find out if the substance acts as a ‘silent’ or ‘noxious’ substance to animals.

The spasmolytic effect of Lavender oil was most likely to be mediated through cAMP, and not through cGMP, and the mode of action of linalool, one of lavender's major components, reflected that of the whole oil.

The antioxidant effects of aqueous methanolic extracts from three medicinal Lamiaceae species were investigated and Phenolic components present in the plant extracts were evaluated for antioxidant activity and were found effective in both tests.

The correlation of the motility of the animals to linalool in serum is experimentally proven, thus furnishing evidence of the aromatherapeutical use of herbal pillows employed in folk medicine since ancient times in order to facilitate falling asleep or to minimize stressful situations of man.

It was shown that lavender oil penetrates the skin of a male subject and may be based on two different ways of incorporation: the inhalation of fragrant molecules and the penetration through the skin.

The sensitivity of Guinea pig sensitization experiments with ornamental plants and weeks using different methods and cross-reactions to related sesquiterpene lactones containing Compositae species are described.

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