Beyond mosquitoes—Essential oil toxicity and repellency against bloodsucking insects

G Benelli, R Pavela - Industrial crops and products, 2018 - Elsevier
The control of insect pests and vectors is a timely challenge for public health. The prevention
of bites from bloodsucking insect species is based to a large extent on the use of chemical …

Himalayan aromatic medicinal plants: a review of their ethnopharmacology, volatile phytochemistry, and biological activities

RK Joshi, P Satyal, WN Setzer - Medicines, 2016 - mdpi.com
Aromatic plants have played key roles in the lives of tribal peoples living in the Himalaya by
providing products for both food and medicine. This review presents a summary of aromatic …

Terpenes: natural products for controlling insects of importance to human health—a structure‐activity relationship study

JS Dambolena, MP Zunino, JM Herrera… - Psyche: A Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Many insects affect food production and human health, and in an attempt to control these
insects the use of synthetic insecticides has become widespread. However, this has resulted …

Hedychium spicatum: A comprehensive insight into its ethnobotany, phytochemistry, pharmacological and therapeutic attributes

M Singh, R Kumar, S Sharma, L Kumar, S Kumar… - South African Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The function of medicinal plants in the healthcare system is immense as they are the main
source of contemporary medications. Among them Hedychium spicatum is a significant …

Plant extracts, isolated phytochemicals, and plant-derived agents which are lethal to arthropod vectors of human tropical diseases–a review

AM Pohlit, AR Rezende, ELL Baldin, NP Lopes… - Planta …, 2011 - thieme-connect.com
The recent scientific literature on plant-derived agents with potential or effective use in the
control of the arthropod vectors of human tropical diseases is reviewed. Arthropod-borne …

[图书][B] Medicinal plants of China, Korea, and Japan: bioresources for tomorrow's drugs and cosmetics

C Wiart - 2012 - books.google.com
Asian medicinal plants show great promise in pharmaceutical and cosmetological
development. Researchers engaged in the discovery of new leads in these areas need …

Hedychium spicatum: a systematic review on traditional uses, phytochemistry, pharmacology and future prospectus

S Rawat, AK Jugran, ID Bhatt… - Journal of Pharmacy and …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Objectives Hedychium spicatum Buch. Ham. ex D. Don.(Family Zingiberaceae) is a
rhizomatous herb, used in medicines, food, cosmetics and perfumery industries …

Treatment of pediculosis capitis

P Verma, C Namdeo - Indian journal of dermatology, 2015 - journals.lww.com
An endeavour to delineate the salient details of the treatment of head lice infestation has
been made in the present article. Treatment modalities including over the counter …

Anthelmintic effect of essential rhizome oil from Hedychium coronarium Koenig (Zingiberaceae) introduced in Northeastern Brazil

AS Lima, HNPC Junior, LM Costa-Junior, OS Monteiro… - Acta Tropica, 2021 - Elsevier
Hedychium coronarium is native to Tropical Asia and has been introduced into several
Brazilian biomes. Significant biological properties described for the essential oil (EO) from …

Current treatments for pediculosis capitis

IF Burgess - Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases, 2009 - journals.lww.com
I have found that most diagnostic methods lack evidence of efficacy or effectiveness and the
evidence for efficacy of several 'popular'options for alternatives to insecticides in treatment is …