Table 1. Activities of methanolic extracts from some plants on Toxoplasma gondii at concentrations 50 µg/ml and 10 µg/ml.
| Plants | Plant part | Traditional uses | References | % inhibition of RH-GFP at 50 µg/ml |
% inhibition of RH-GFP at 10 µg/ml |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boswellia scara (Frankincens) | Resins | To cure bronchial and urinary infections | [42] | 18.28 ± 8.11 | 0.00 |
| Cinnamum camphora (Camphor tree) | Leaf | Used for treating for inflammatory diseases such as bronchitis, rheumatism, and sprains | [80] | 54.95 ± 18.97 | 34.73 ± 10.01 |
| Citrullus colocynthis (Colocynth) | Fruit | Used for treating respiratory diseases, diabetes, obesity, insecticide, purgative, anthelmintic, and mollusicide | [3, 28, 78] | 97.07 ± 8.7 | 65.73 ± 4.45 |
| Laurus nobilis (Bay laurel) | Leaf | Used for treating gastrointestinal diseases | [22] | 74.78 ± 12.01 | 0.00 |
| Matricaria chamomilla (German chamomile) | Flower | Used for skin irritations, wounds eczema, ulcers, bruises, burns, gout, neuralgia, sciatica, mastitis rheumatic pain, and hemorrhoids | [8, 79] | 83.36 ± 7.69 | 67.37 ± 14.52 |
| Melissa officionalis (Lemon balm) | Leaf | Used for treating CNS problems such as nervous agitation, sleep disorders, depression, and gastrointestinal diseases | [30, 34] | 17.96 ± 12.03 | 3.14 ± 4.29 |
% inhibition of a green fluorescent protein expressing-RH strain of T. gondii (RH-GFP) of 1 mg/ml Sulfadiazine: 67.93 ± 10.56. Values are the mean ± SD of triplicate samples, and data are a representative of three independent experiments.