The Study of Antioxidant and Antimicrobial activities of Moroccan Thymus vulgaris’ Essential oil and its Physicochemical Characteristics in comparison with previous Studies
| Autor: | Sabah Elghamouz Et Al, Sabah |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| DOI: | 10.48419/imist.prsm/rhazes-v10.23810 |
| Popis: | Thymus vulgaris L. known as Thym, Zitra in Arabic, belongs to the Lamiaceae family. It is one of many wild aromatic medicinal plants in Morocco. The raw material of this study was harvested from southeast Morocco precisely from Deraa-Tafilalet’s region. This research was aimed at characterizing the physical and chemical index of Thymus vulgaris L.’s extracted essential oil and also evaluating its antimicrobial activity by disc diffusion method. The essential oil was obtained by hydrodistillation method and has an extraction’s yield of 1,3 %. The GC/MS analysis revealed that the studied Thymus vulgaris is a carvacrol chemotype with 45.85% of carvacrol. The acid and saponification indexes indicated the lowest amount of free acids in Thymus vulgaris’ essential oil and good conservation conditions. Yet, the essential oil showed a very significant antioxidant activity using two different assays the TAC through the phosphomolybdenum and the DPPH (1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl). Moreover, the Thymus vulgaris L.’s essential oil showed antimicrobial activity against all the tested strains, which are Gram-positive bacteria (Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococcus faecalis), Gram-negative bacterium (Escherichia coli, Salmonella), and Candida albicans RHAZES: Green and Applied Chemistry, Vol. 10 (2020) |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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