Nepeta Species: From Farm to Food applications and Phytotherapy

Publication date: Available online 4 August 2018Source: Trends in Food Science & TechnologyAuthor(s): Bahare Salehi, Marco Valussi, Arun Kumar Jugran, Miquel Martorell, Karina Ramírez-Alarcón, Zorica Z. Stojanović-Radić, Hubert Antolak, Dorota Kręgiel, Ksenija S. Mileski, Mehdi Sharifi-Rad, William N. Setzer, María de la Luz Cádiz-Gurrea, Antonio Segura-Carretero, Bilge Şener, Javad Sharifi-RadAbstractPlant species have long been regarded as possessing the principal ingredients used in widely disseminated ethnomedical practices. Different surveys showed that medicinal plant species used by the inhabitants for the traditional treatment of diseases are inadequately screened for their therapeutic/preventive potential and phytochemical findings. The genus Nepeta L., which belongs to the family Lamiaceae, are widely used in traditional medicine. In this review, Nepeta species, which are used as traditional herbal medicine pursued indigenously, have reported several fpharmacological effects as antimicrobial, antioxidant, antiinflammatory, sedative, relaxant, cholesterol lowering, antiasthmatic, carminative, diuretic, diaphoretic, febrifuge, vermifuge, herbicidal, insecticidal and insect repellent, all of them directly related to the specific chemical composition. According to the Nepeta genus phytochemistry, there exist two main essential oil chemotypes. The first is the nepetolactone chemotype, and the second is the 1,8-cineole and/or linalool chemotype. The active constit...
Source: Trends in Food Science and Technology - Category: Food Science Source Type: research