Chemical composition and evaluation of antileishmanial and cytotoxic activities of the essential oil from leaves of Cryptocarya aschersoniana Mez. (Lauraceae Juss.).

Leishmaniasis is an endemic disease caused by protozoa of the genus Leishmania, which affects around two million people worldwide. One major drawback in the treatment of leishmaniasis is the emergence of resistance to current chemotherapeutics. Medicinal and aromatic plants constitute a major source of natural organic compounds.

Chemical composition and antileishmanial and cytotoxic activities of the essential oils of (Nees) Mez and (Vell) Rohwer (Lauraceae).

We investigate the chemical composition and the antileishmanial and cytotoxic activities of the essential oils extracted from the leaves of (Nees) Mez (OD-EO) and (Vell) Rohwer (OO-EO). On the basis of GC-FID and GC-MS, α-eudesmol (20.9%), valencene (10.