STUDY EFFECT OF MEDICINAL PLANT MYRTUS COMMUNIS ON SOME BLOOD BIOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS ON ARABI SHEEP
2016
Kolsom Salehpour | Tahereh Mohammad abadi | Mohammad R. Ghorbani
Myrtus communis(myrtle) is rare medicine plant that exist in limited areas in Iran and theworld. Essential oil of myrtle leaf is containing terpinolene, cineole,linalool,terpineol andlinalyl acetate. This experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of myrtus communis leafon some blood parameters of Arabi sheep. Eight sheep with 9month’s age and average weight32±1.5 kg were fed with control diet (30:70 forage to concentrate without myrtle leaf) anddiet containing 4% myrtle leaf for one month. In the end of experiment, blood samples weretaken and some metabolites were measured. The results of this experiment showed dietcontaining 4% myrtle leaf significantly reduced blood urea, triglyceride and glucose ofsheeps in compared with the control diet. But the blood cholesterol value of sheeps did notaffected by inclusion of myrtle leave. Therefore, according to the effect of phytochemicals ofmyrtus communis leaf on decreasing blood parameters, it seems to be used by 4% in Arabisheep diet.
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