Fallatah Sahar A B, Khater Emad I M
Department of Zoology, Science College for Girls, Dammam University, P.O. Box 838, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Dammam 31113.
J Egypt Soc Parasitol. 2010 Apr;40(1):1-26.
Medicinal plants have long history as important components in traditional medicine, and food of humans since ancient Egyptians and Chinese. Naturally occurring botanical compounds contain a broad range of chemical active ingredients can intervene in all biological processes of the mosquito, thus interrupt its life cycle and dispersal and reduce harms to humans and animals. Many medicinal plants were tested for their pesticide and repellent potential, as crude material, essential oils or individual active ingredients. This article reviewed studies on the efficacy of many well known and commonly used safe medicinal plants or their products in controlling the mosquitoes; Aedes aegypti, Anopheles gambiae, An. stephensi and Culex quinquefasciatus and the ticks, Dermacentor variabilis, Amblyomma americanum, Ixodes scapularis and I. ricinus. Promising and encouraging results were obtained against these arthropod-vectors of zoonotic diseases.
药用植物作为传统医学的重要组成部分有着悠久的历史，自古埃及人和中国人以来一直是人类的食物。天然存在的植物化合物含有广泛的化学活性成分，可干预蚊子的所有生物过程，从而中断其生命周期和传播，并减少对人类和动物的危害。许多药用植物作为原材料、精油或单一活性成分，已针对其农药和驱避潜力进行了测试。本文综述了许多知名且常用的安全药用植物或其产品在控制埃及伊蚊、冈比亚按蚊、斯氏按蚊、致倦库蚊以及变异革蜱、美洲钝缘蜱、肩突硬蜱和蓖麻硬蜱等蚊虫方面的功效研究。针对这些人畜共患病的节肢动物传播媒介取得了有前景且令人鼓舞的结果。
