Catalog of Herbs
James A. Duke in Handbook of Medicinal Herbs, 2018
Rosemary is grown primarily for the leaves, used ground or whole as a condiment in lamb dishes, stews, or soups. Oil of rosemary, because of its persistent, woody odor, is used in wine, cosmetics, soaps, perfumes, deodorants, and hair tonics. A perennial to 2 m tall, this evergreen blue-flowered shrub is native to the Mediterranean. As a camphoraceous spice, it is used with chicken, duck, fish, lamb, pork, rabbit, shellfish, soups, stews, and veal. Among vegetables, it is used with eggplant or potatoes, or zucchini, but sparingly. Some cultivars are adaptable to bonsai and hanging gardens. Rosemary is found in herbal baths, herb biscuits, bouquets, potpourris, weddings, and even funerals as a symbol of fidelity. It is a cordial, reputed to stimulate the blood, eyes, hair, and memory. Placing a pan of water with crushed rosemary and jumper on the radiator can improve the aroma of the place. The French are said to burn the mixture of rosemary and jumper berries. The oil is used in cosmetics, deodorants, liniments, lotions, soaps, and tonics, as well as liqueurs and medicinais.29 Rosemary lotion is said to stimulate hair growth and prevent baldness. Used as an insecticide in Latin America. It is a fragrant moth repellent. The oil is bactericidal, fungicidal, and protisticidal. Rosemary makes good bee forage. Rosemary extracts are antioxidant, perhaps due to carnosic- and labiatic-acid.29 Inatani et al.280 indicate a strong antioxidant activity for an odorless and tasteless lactone known as rosmanol.
Introduction
Christopher Ziguras in Self-Care, 2004
The therapeutic systems associated with this subculture usually claim to have equally far-reaching beneficial effects. Consider the case of aromatherapy, the use of essential oils extracted from plants and used in baths, inhaled or applied directly to the skin to enhance health and well-being. Manufacturers' descriptions of the properties of oils and their claimed effects give some sense of the breadth and borderlessness of notions of health, seeming, as they do, to promise to enhance or improve virtually every aspect of one's life: CYPRESS works primarily on the circulatory system, and is often referred to as a tonic, because of its cleansing effect on both the mind and body. Cypress aids the elimination of body fluids, making it a useful oil for cellulite treatments.ROSEMARY provides a burst of freshness, which stimulates the mind, improving memory and aiding concentration—great for students and office workers. Applied externally via a massage or compress, Rosemary can provide temporary relief from muscular aches and pains—a good oil for the sportsperson.YLANGYLANG has an exotic and sweet aroma, which provides an exquisite touch to many blends of essential oils. It is a calming and soothing oil, with a traditional reputation as an aphrodisiac. Ylang Ylang helps to balance the emotions, strengthening and supporting the feminine qualities.
Herbal Product Development and Characteristics
Anil K. Sharma, Raj K. Keservani, Surya Prakash Gautam in Herbal Product Development, 2020
The leaves of the genus Rosmarinus, commonly known as rosemary, are mainly cultivated around Mediterranean since the distant past (Figure 8.1). These plants are used in the traditional medicine and by the pharmaceutical industries due to their analgesic, anti-inflammatory, anticarcinogenic, antirheumatic, spasmolytic, antihepatotoxic, atherosclerotic, carminative, and choleretic uses (Fahim, et al., 1999; Haloui et al., 2000; Mahmoud et al., 2004; Yamamoto et al., 2005). These properties are attributed to its bioactive components (Table 8.1), while the presence of one or the other BAC will depend on the technique used for their extraction. Between these techniques, maceration, hydrodistillation, distillation, or supercritical fluid extraction should be highlighted. Obtained extracts or essential oils have different properties linked to their chemical composition. Within essential oils compounds that stand out are: 1,8-cineole, α-pinene, limonene, camphor, and less presence of camphene, borneol, bornyl acetate, and α-terpineol (Bozin et al., 2006; Hernández et al., 2016). On the contrary, extracts of these plants contain phenolic acids as rosmarinic, caffeic, ursolic, betulinic, and carnosic acids, and terpenes as camphor and carnosol (WHO, 2018).
In Vivo and In Vitro Protective Effects of Rosmarinic Acid against Doxorubicin-Induced Cardiotoxicity
Published in Nutrition and Cancer, 2022
Mahboobeh Ghasemzadeh Rahbardar, Farhad Eisvand, Maryam Rameshrad, Bibi Marjan Razavi, Hossein Hosseinzadeh
Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis L. (Lamiaceae; Synonyms: Salvia rosmarinus Schleid. and Rosmarinus angustifolius Mill.)) is mainly known as a flavoring agent and a spice. In folk medicine, rosemary leaves are believed to boost energy, enhance circulation, elevate mood, and improve digestion (26). It is also recognized that R. officinalis has supportive properties in contradiction of a wide range of natural toxins such as snake venoms, mycotoxins, and bacterial toxins as well as chemical toxic compounds including pesticides, metals, cardiotoxic, hepatotoxic, nephrotoxic, and neurotoxic agents (27–29). Some underlying mechanisms which are ascribed to R. officinalis and its main constituents’ effects include antioxidative, radical scavenging, anti-inflammatory, and anti-apoptotic properties (30, 31).
The optimization of technological processes, stability and microbiological evaluation of innovative natural ingredients-based multiple emulsion
Published in Pharmaceutical Development and Technology, 2018
Ugne Cizauskaite, Mindaugas Marksa, Jurga Bernatoniene
The microbiological quality control studies of non-sterile pharmaceutical preparations and cosmetic products are necessary to ensure their safety to the human health and environment. Since the investigated W/O/W emulsion contains more than 92.0% natural ingredients and is preservative free, the compliance with microbiological quality requirements of European Pharmacopoeia 7.0 01/2011:50104 must be confirmed. The investigation and detection of specified microorganisms was carried out in the freshly made emulsion and the sample that was stored at 38 ± 2 °C with relative humidity of 75 ± 5% for 28 days (Table 5). According to the literature, one may conclude that rosemary extract and it’s essential oils are suitable as an alternative to chemical preservatives to be used in topical semi-solid preparations (Petkova-Parlapanska et al. 2014; Kaczmarczyk et al. 2015). The investigated sample fulfilled the requirements—no microbial growth was observed.
Medicinal plants in mitigating electromagnetic radiation-induced neuronal damage: a concise review
Published in Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine, 2022
Shamprasad Varija Raghu, Avinash Kundadka Kudva, Golgodu Krishnamurthy Rajanikant, Manjeshwar Shrinath Baliga
Rosmarinus officinalis L., also known as rosemary, is a well-known aromatic perennial herb that was originally native to the Mediterranean region but is now grown worldwide (de Oliveira et al. 2019). Rosemary has been used in various traditional systems of medicine in the Mediterranean region and has been shown to have significant anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, hypoglycemic, hypolipidemic, hypotensive, anti-atherosclerotic, anti-thrombotic, hepatoprotective, hypocholesterolemia, and neuroprotective effects (de Oliveira et al. 2019; Hassani et al. 2016). Rosmarinic acid, the principal phytochemical of the plant, has been extensively researched and found to have antiviral, antibacterial, anticancer, anti-oxidant, anti-aging, antidiabetic, cardioprotective, hepatoprotective, nephroprotective, antidepressant, antiallergic, and anti-inflammatory properties (Luo et al. 2020; Nadeem et al. 2019; Petersen and Simmonds 2003).
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