Diuretic activity of Artemisia thuscula, an endemic canary species

Diuretic activity of the aqueous extracts of Carum carvi and Tanacetum vulgare in normal rats

“…Before treatment, all animals received physiological saline (0.9% NaCl) at an oral dose of 5 mL/100 g body weight (BW), to impose a uniform water and salt load (Benjumea et al, 2005).…”

“…The diuretic activity of a number of plants used in ethnomedicine as diuretic agents has been confirmed in experimental animals (Benjumea et al, 2005;Maksimovic et al, 2004).…”

Antimicrobial potential of Coriandrum sativum L. against different Candida species in vitro

“…Coriandrum sativum L. (Umbelliferae/Apiaceae), popularly known as coriander, is commonly found in Brazilian cuisine and medicinally believed to have several therapeutic properties: hypoglycaemic (Otoom, Al-Safi, Kerem, & Alkofani, 2006;Waheed, Miana, Ahmad, & Khan, 2006), anti-inflammatory and hypolipidaemic (Chithra & Leelamma, 1997;Chithra & Leelamma, 2000;Lal, Tkumar, & Pillai, 2004), analgesic and sedative (Chaudhry & Tariq, 2006;Emamghoreishi & Heidari-Hamedani, 2006), anxiolytic (Emamghoreishi, Khasaki, & Aazam, 2005), antimutagenic (Cortes-Eslava, Gomez-Arroyo, Villalobos-Pietrini, & Espinosa-Aguirre, 2004), antihypertensive (Medhim, Hadharzy, Bakos, & Verzar-Petri,1986), diuretic (Benjumea, Abdala, Hernandez-Luiz, Pérez-Paz, & Martin-Herrera, 2005;Maghrani, Zwggwagh, Haloui, & Eddouks, 2005), antioxidant (Melo, Bion, Filho, & Guerra, 2003;Ramadan, Kroh, & Morsel, 2003), antimicrobial (Kubo, Fujita, Kubo, Hihei, & Ogura, 2004;Lo Cantore, Iacobelli, Marco, Capasso, & Senatore, 2004), and carminative, antispasmodic and relaxant (Vejdani et al, 2006). Antimicrobial activity has been reported for the essential oil (EO) extracted from C. sativum seeds against different species of Candida, Gram-positive/negative bacteria, and fungi (Elgayyar, Draughon, Golden, & Mount, 2001;Hammer, Carson, & Riley, 1998;Lo Cantore et al, 2004).…”

Diuretic activity of the bark of <i>Eysenhardtia polystachya</i>

“…The diuretic capability of plants has been described in previous studies with other medicinal plants (Benjumea et al, 2005;Lahlou et al, 2007;Martín-Herrera et al, 2007;Adam et al, 2009;Amuthan et al, 2012). However, the mechanism of action of these has not been elucidated because of aqueous or organic extracts with biological activity, are a mixture of compounds may be working by synergism and some hypotheses have been formulated in order to explain medical properties of plants.…”