Melaleuca spp. essential oil and its medical applicability. A Brief Review

Abstract

Medicinal plants have long been used as an alternative in the treatment of diseases, whether using extracts, essential oils and / or bioactive components. Thus, the use of medicinal plants, with popularly known effects for the treatment of infections, has gained prominence, in research related to extracts and essential oils of medicinal plants, in an attempt to discover and future application of new molecules with antimicrobial and / or effect coadjuvant molecules to antimicrobials on the market. Studies with species of Melaleuca spp., Demonstrate wide application of its essential oil, without treating skin infections, microbial infections, herpes, diseases associated with pathogenic microorganisms of the oral cavity. The emerging microbial resistance to the drugs currently available on the market, has been affected by both researchers and the general population, so that the research experimented with was conducted revealing a high synergistic potential between drugs and natural drugs, present in drugs. In view of the above, this study aimed to present, through a bibliographic survey, a use of medicinal plants in the face of microbial resistance, as well as medicinal therapy based on the use of essential oils from alternative tea tree, leucadendron tea tree and quinquenervia tea tree, already inclusion in the literature.

Beneficial Role of Antioxidant Secondary Metabolites from Medicinal Plants in Maintaining Oral Health

“…Recently, in vivo trials conducted on melaleuca gel were reported to have an inhibitory effect on bacterial growth, causing dental caries, periodontitis, dental plaque, and gingivitis. A study found that during experimental oral candidiasis, mice are protected by terpin-4-ol, which is one of the main chemical constituents present in Melaleuca alternifolia essential oil [134]. Melaleuca alternifolia Cheel is used in Australian traditional medicine.…”

PVA/Inulin-Based Sustainable Films Reinforced with Pickering Emulsion of Niaouli Essential Oil for Potential Wound Healing Applications

“…Furthermore [ 64 ], Donoyama and Ichiman (2006) reported that niaouli oil has antibacterial effects on Staphylococcus aureus . Niaouli essential oil was effective against pathogenic microorganisms resistant to antibiotics on the skin surface, and the effectiveness of P. aeruginosa on biofilm formation was determined by [ 65 , 66 ]. In another study, Ozdemir et al (2018) found that niaouli had strong antibacterial resistance of 13.0 ± 1.00 mm, 20.0 ± 1.00 mm, 21.0 ± 1.00 mm, 15.0 ± 1.00 mm, 17.0 ± 1.00 mm, 15.0 ± 1.00 mm, 35.0 ± 0.57 mm, and 13.0 ± 1.00 mm against Pseudomonas aeruginosa , Staphylococcus aureus , Escherichia coli , Enterococcus faecalis , Bacillus subtilis , Salmonella typhimurium , Staphylococcus epidermidis , and Enterococcus hirae , respectively [ 67 ].…”

Exploring correlations between MS and NMR for compound identification using essential oils: A pilot study

“…The compounds α‐terpineol, germacrene‐D, ledene, α‐pinene, terpinolene, ρ‐cymene, β‐caryophyllene, limonene, and sabinene follow in lower concentrations. Both species are endemic to Australia, with M. alternifolia essential oil being used by traditional medicine topically due to its antimicrobial and antifungal potentials 27 . It is not the intention of this study to describe the composition of the essential oil of these species, instead these samples were selected by their easy access from commercial sources.…”