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ArticleJournal of evidence-based complementary & alternative medicine2017

Investigating Chemical Composition and Indications of Hydrosol Soft Drinks (Aromatic Waters) Used in Persian Folk Medicine for Women's Hormonal and Reproductive Health Conditions.

Azadeh Hamedi, Mehdi Afifi, Hamed Etemadfard

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Article in Journal of evidence-based complementary & alternative medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Azadeh Hamedi1 Medicinal Plants Processing Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Mehdi Afifi3 Student Research Committee, School of Pharmacy, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Hamed Etemadfard1 Medicinal Plants Processing Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Shiraz University of Medical Sciences · IR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hydrosol soft drinks in Persian nutrition culture are produced as side products of the essential oil industry to be used as safe remedies for treatment of some ailments. This study investigated hydrosols for women's hormonal health conditions. Detailed information was gathered by questionnaires. Chemical constituents of these mono- or poly-herbal hydrosols were identified after liquid/liquid extraction and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Hierarchical cluster and K-means analysis (SPSS software) were used to find their relevance. A literature survey was also performed. In most cases, thymol, carvacrol, and carvone were the major constituents except for dill, white horehound, willow, Moderr, and yarrow hydrosols, whose their major components were dill ether, menthol, phenethyl alcohol, linalool, or camphor. Based on clustering methods, some similarities could be found in their constituents with some exceptions. None of them have been studied scientifically before. These investigations may lead to the development of some functional drinks or even new lead components.

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BeveragesMonoterpenesPhenylethyl AlcoholPlant ExtractsPlant OilsReproductive HealthThymolCymenesDrug CompoundingFemaleGas Chromatography-Mass SpectrometryHumansIranMedicine, TraditionalSolutionsVolatile Organic CompoundscarvacrolCymenesMonoterpenesPhenylethyl AlcoholPlant ExtractsPlant OilsSolutionsThymolVolatile Organic CompoundsAragharomatic watersdistillateessential oilwomen’s reproductive disorder

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PMID28701045
PMCPMC5871293
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