Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
Molecules. 2022 Oct 27;27(21):7295. doi: 10.3390/molecules27217295.
Essential oils have been used by indigenous peoples for medicinal purposes since ancient times. Their easy availability played an important role. Even today, essential oils are used in various fields—be it as aromatic substances in the food industry, as an aid in antibiotic therapy, in aromatherapy, in various household products or in cosmetics. The benefits they bring to the body and health are proven by many sources. Due to their complex composition, they offer properties that will be used more and more in the future. Synergistic effects of various components in an essential oil are also part of the reason for their effectiveness. Infectious diseases will always recur, so it is important to find active ingredients for different therapies or new research approaches. Essential oils extracted from the bark of trees have not been researched as extensively as from other plant components. Therefore, this review will focus on bringing together previous research on selected bark oils to provide an overview of barks that are economically, medicinally, and ethnopharmaceutically relevant. The bark oils described are Cinnamomum verum, Cedrelopsis grevei, Drypetes gossweileri, Cryptocarya massoy, Vanillosmopsis arborea and Cedrus deodara. Literature from various databases, such as Scifinder, Scopus, Google Scholar, and PubMed, among others, were used.
自古以来，土著民族就将精油用于医疗目的。它们易于获得，这一点起到了重要作用。即使在今天，精油也在各个领域得到应用——无论是在食品工业中作为芳香物质，作为抗生素治疗的辅助手段，在芳香疗法中，在各种家居产品或化妆品中。许多来源都证明了它们给身体和健康带来的益处。由于其复杂的组成，它们具有未来将越来越多地被利用的特性。精油中各种成分的协同作用也是其有效性的部分原因。传染病将始终反复出现，因此寻找针对不同疗法或新研究方法的有效成分非常重要。从树皮中提取的精油尚未像其他植物成分那样得到广泛研究。因此，本次综述将重点整合以往对选定树皮油的研究，提供具有经济、药用和民族药物学意义的树皮概述。所描述的树皮油有肉桂、非洲桃花心木、非洲楝、密脉青冈、香脂冷杉和雪松。研究使用了来自各种数据库的文献，如 Scifinder、Scopus、Google Scholar 和 PubMed 等。
