Aromatic plants, also known as herbs and spices, have been used since antiquity as folk
medicine and as preservatives in foods. The best known aromatic plants, such as oregano …

In recent years, essential oils constituents have attracted interest as alternative approach in
the traditional medicine for their therapeutics properties. In this field, carvacrol, since it …

Three Origanum essential oils, Origanum vulgare ssp. hirtum, Origanum dictamnus, and a
commercially available Origanum oil, were analyzed by gas chromatography− mass …

The antibacterial activity of selected fatty acids and essential oils was examined against two
gram-negative (Pseudomonas fluorescens and Serratia liquefaciens), and four gram …

The antimicrobial effect of oregano essential oil (EO) at 0.6 or 0.9%, nisin at 500 or
1000IU/g, and their combination against Salmonella Enteritidis was studied in minced sheep …

Essential oils of Origanum vulgare ssp. hirtum from twenty-three localities, scattered all over
Greece, were analysed in order to determine their quantitative and qualitative features. The …

Twenty-four steam-distilled samples of essential oils from inflorescences from Origanum
vulgare ssp. hirtum (Link) Ietswaart growing wild in Calabria, southern Italy, were analyzed …

The essential oils (EOs) obtained from the oregano plants Origanum vulgare subsp. hirtum,
Coridothymus capitatus, and Satureja thymbra were examined by a combination of GC and …

The essential oils of Origanum vulgare subsp. hirtum plants collected in late autumn from six
localities of three distinct geographic areas of Greece were analysed by means of GC and …

In this study, four samples of essential oils obtained from plant species with a wide
distribution in Greece and economic importance for the world-wide spice market and also …