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Plant Source Foods
Published in Chuong Pham-Huy, Bruno Pham Huy, Food and Lifestyle in Health and Disease, 2022
Chuong Pham-Huy, Bruno Pham Huy
This plant is known also as desert wormwood and is mainly found in North African countries. Artemisia herba-alba is rich in cineole (eucalyptol) and oxygenated monoterpenes (camphor, borneol). Herbal tea from this species has been used as analgesic, antibacterial, antispasmodic, and hemostatic agents (298). Recently, a study has demonstrated the powerful antimicrobial activity of Artemisia herba-alba against different germs in periodontal disease, a dental infection (299).
Artemisia Species
Published in Mahendra Rai, Shandesh Bhattarai, Chistiane M. Feitosa, Wild Plants, 2020
Suroowan Shanoo, Jugreet B. Sharmeen, Mahomoodally M. Fawzi
Artemisia herba-alba Asso is a perennial shrub known as “white herb” in Latin, given its white and woolly stems and leaves, grows between 20–40 cm in height (Samy and Francis 1999). It occurs mostly in Northern Africa, South Western Europe, and Western Asia (Ali et al. 2019). The leaves of the species are extremely aromatic and covered with glandular hairs that reflect sunlight. The shoots bear leaves which are grey, petiolate, ovate to orbicular. Flowering stems occur mostly in winter and are much smaller (Samy and Francis 1999).
Essential Oils in Cancer Therapy
Published in K. Hüsnü Can Başer, Gerhard Buchbauer, Handbook of Essential Oils, 2020
Carmen Trummer, Gerhard Buchbauer
An in vitro antitumor cytotoxicity assay of Artemisia herba-alba Asso. (Asteraceae) EOs demonstrated antiproliferative properties against P815 (murine mastocytoma cell line) and BSR (kidney carcinoma cell line of hamsters) cancer cell lines (Tilaoui et al., 2015). A. alba is a dwarf shrub and the EOs from the leaves and aerial parts mainly contain oxygenated sesquiterpenes, while the capitulum oil is mainly composed by monoterpenes. The results showed that all EOs possess a significant cytotoxic effect against the tested cell lines in a dose-dependent manner but leaf and capitulum EOs were more active than EOs obtained from aerial parts.
Artemisia herba-alba aqueous extract improves insulin sensitivity and hepatic steatosis in rodent model of fructose-induced metabolic syndrome
Published in Archives of Physiology and Biochemistry, 2021
Yassine Réggami, Abderrahim Benkhaled, Amel Boudjelal, Hajira Berredjem, Amani Amamra, Halima Benyettou, Nadia Larabi, Abderrahmane Senator, Laura Siracusa, Giuseppe Ruberto
Artemisia herba-alba Asso (AH), “desert wormwood” or Shih (Arabic name), is a medicinal and aromatic dwarf shrub belonging to the Asteraceae (Compositae) family. It grows in arid and semi-arid climates, wide-spread in the steppes and deserts of North Africa, Middle East, Spain, Northwestern Himalayas, and India (Harlev et al. 2013). The decoction and/or aqueous extract of the aerial parts of A. herba-alba has been extensively used in folk medicine by many civilizations since ancient times to treat colds, coughing, bronchitis, diarrhea, diabetes, hypertension, scorpion/snake bites, neuralgias, and parasitic infections (Salido et al. 2004). Furthermore, a series of clinical and experimental studies in literature reported that A. herba-alba having hypoglycemic, hypolipidaemic and anti-diabetic effects in T2DM patients (Al-Waili 1988), as well as in diabetic animal models induced by alloxan (Twaij and Al-Badr 1988, Al-Khazraji et al. 1993, Marrif et al. 1995, Mansi et al. 2007, Boudjelal et al. 2015, Sekiou et al. 2018) and high fat diet (Hamza et al.2011). Considering these precious effects, we hypothesized that A. herba-alba may possibly exert therapeutic proprieties against MetS, the pre-diabetic state that is characterized principally by insulin resistance. To test this hypothesis, we evaluated the ability of the aqueous extract from the leaves of A. herba-alba to improve insulin sensitivity, dyslipidaemia, oxidative stress and hepatic steatosis in fructose-induced MetS rodent model.
Mitigating effects of antioxidant properties of Artemisia herba alba aqueous extract on hyperlipidemia and oxidative damage in alloxan-induced diabetic rats
Published in Archives of Physiology and Biochemistry, 2019
Omar Sekiou, Mahieddine Boumendjel, Faiza Taibi, Amel Boumendjel, Mahfoud Messarah
It is very widespread in the world and represents 5–7% of the world’s population. Each year 1.3 million people diagnosed with diabetes. This quick increase in new diabetes cases is particularly worrying. Moreover, the total number of affected people is expected to increase from 382 million in 2013 to 592 million in 2035 (Guariguata et al.2014). Many studies (Erejuwa et al.2010, Kulaksızoglu and Karalezli 2016) in person with diabetes have shown that diabetes mellitus (DM) is accompanied with an increased production of free radicals by various mechanisms, and a significant decrease in enzymatic antioxidant capacity: superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), glutathione peroxidase (GPx) and glutathione-S-transferase (GST). This contributes to the appearance of an oxidative stress in the tissues especially in β-cells that have limited defenses against free radicals (Lupi and Del Prato 2008). The pathogenic role of oxidative stress on β-cells causes their apoptosis and may explain the reduction in pancreatic mass observed in a person with diabetes. For this reason, the use of antioxidant compounds, which are able to scavenge free radicals and modulate oxidative stress, seems to be a logical approach to fight against harmful complications of diabetes (Lupi et al.2007). Thus, several investigations have been carried out in traditional medicine for testing medicinal plants with hypoglycemic and antioxidant activity in different animal models (Adeyemi et al.2014, Nazem et al.2015). Artemisia herba alba is one of the Asteraceae plants widely distributed in Algeria (locally named “chih”). Its aqueous extract has been frequently used in traditional medicine as an antidiabetic remedy (Al-Shamaony et al.1994). The current investigation is an attempt to study the antidiabetic, anti-hyperlipidemic and antioxidant activities of AHA aqueous extract leaf in alloxan-induced diabetic rats.
Larvicidal and pathological effects of green synthesized silver nanoparticles from Artemisia herba-alba against Spodoptera littoralis through feeding and contact application
Published in Egyptian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, 2022
Raghda S. El-Ashmouny, Magda H. Rady, Bouthaina A. Merdan, T. A. A. El-Sheikh, Rasha E. Hassan, El Gohary E El Gohary
Artemisia herba-alba was purchased from a local market. Dried leaf powder (10 g) was stirred in a 1:1 ratio of 50 ml deionized water and 50 ml ethanol and boiled for 10 min [24]. The crude extract was filtered and kept at 4°C for further investigation.