Essential Oils – Anti-Microbial and Pharmacological Properties of Essential Oils

The oils that are essential are highly concentrated herbal extracts from extremely significant botanicals. Popularly these oils are used in complementary and substitute medicine. The oil is usually extracted from flowers, leaves, roots, and added parts of plants. The antimicrobial activity of essent...

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Published in:IOP conference series. Earth and environmental science 2023-10, Vol.1258 (1), p.12009
Main Authors: Cherian, Elsa, Mohan, Lakshmi, Arackal, Jobil J, Anju, K A, Rajan, Sruthi, Loganathan, Veerapandi
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Antimicrobial activity
Antimicrobial agent
Antimicrobial agents
composition
Distillation
Essential oils
Flowers
Herbal medicine
Medicinal plants
Microorganisms
Microwaves
Oils & fats
Plant extracts
Plants (botany)
production
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Summary:The oils that are essential are highly concentrated herbal extracts from extremely significant botanicals. Popularly these oils are used in complementary and substitute medicine. The oil is usually extracted from flowers, leaves, roots, and added parts of plants. The antimicrobial activity of essential oils and their components has been studied for a very long time. Essential oils are produced from a complex combination of unstable atoms that are delivered by the optional digestion of sweet-smelling and medicinal plants and can be produced by various techniques, including distillation or microwaves. The huge number of studies on the antimicrobial action of essential oils has permitted the logical acknowledgment of these mixtures on the control of a wide scope of microbial microorganisms. The advances made on the examination of the method of activity of essential oils against bacterial cell targets give us new points of view to battle constant and antimicrobial safe bacterial microorganisms.
ISSN:1755-1307
1755-1315
DOI:10.1088/1755-1315/1258/1/012009