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Potential Use and Effects of Essential Oils in SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19): Traditional Review
Uçucu Yağların SARS-CoV-2'de (COVID-19) Potansiyel Kullanımı ve Etkileri: Geleneksel Derleme
Eda AVCIa,b, Alev ÖNDERb
aAnkara Medipol University Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacognosy, Ankara, Türkiye
bAnkara University Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacognosy, Ankara, Türkiye
J Lit Pharm Sci. 2024;13(1):18-27
doi: 10.5336/pharmsci.2023-97301
Article Language: EN
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ABSTRACT
 Severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-COV-2), a new type of beta coronavirus that emerged in Wuhan, China, and caused a pandemic, was declared coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) by the World Health Organization on February 12, 2020. Natural remedies from plants have been used traditionally for thousands of years. The global interest in drug development from natural products has grown tremendously. The interest in essential oils, which attract attention with their rich and original content, is increasing in this direction. It is thought that essential oils, which are effective against various microorganisms, may help treat COVID-19 due to their anti-inflammatory, immunomodulatory, bronchodilator, antibacterial, and antiviral properties. This review briefly describes the current biology, epidemiology, and clinical aspects of COVID-19 and essential oil's activity on SARS-COV-2 by considering its effectiveness in this field. It has been observed that most of the studies on this subject consist of in silico and in vitro studies. In this context, molecular docking studies have come into prominence. However, in vivo and clinical studies of essential oils with notable antiviral-antibacterial effects must be increased. Therefore, essential oils and their active components will be promising potential drug candidates against COVID-19, and their numbers will potentially grow. In conclusion, the present review is focused on the most common and well-known essential oils available on the pharmaceutical markets, which show visible activities, especially against enveloped viruses, including COVID-19.

Keywords: Antiviral agents; COVID-19; essential oils; eucalyptol
ÖZET
 Çin'in Wuhan eyaletinde ortaya çıkarak pandemiye sebep olan yeni bir beta-koronavirüs türü olan şiddetli akut solunum sendromukoronavirüs-2 [severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-COV-2)], Dünya Sağlık Örgütü tarafından, 12 Şubat 2020 tarihinde koronavirüs hastalığı-2019 [coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID19)] olarak ilan edildi. Bitkilerden elde edilen doğal ilaçlar, geleneksel olarak yıllardır kullanılmaktadır. Doğal ürünlerden ilaç geliştirmeye yönelik küresel ilgi, son yıllarda büyük oranda artış göstermektedir. Zengin ve özgün içerikleri ile dikkat çeken uçucu yağlara olan ilgi de bu doğrultuda giderek artmaktadır. Çeşitli mikroorganizmalara karşı etkili olan uçucu yağların antiinflamatuar, immünomodülatör, bronkodilatör, antibakteriyel ve antiviral özellikleri nedeniyle COVID-19 tedavisinde faydalı olabilecekleri düşünülmektedir. Bu derlemede, COVID-19'un mevcut biyolojisi, epidemiyolojisi ile çeşitli klinik yönleri kısaca anlatılmış ve bu alan etkili görülerek ön plana çıkmış uçucu yağlardan bahsedilmiştir. Bu konudaki çalışmaların büyük kısmının in silico ve in vitro çalışmalarından oluştuğu görülmüştür. Bu bağlamda moleküler docking çalışmaları ön plana çıkmaktadır. Ancak güçlü antiviral-antibakteriyel etkili uçucu yağlar başta gelmek üzere, in vivo ve klinik çalışmaların da artırılması gerektiği düşünülmektedir. Bu sayede uçucu yağlar ve etkili bileşenlerinin COVID-19'a karşı potansiyel ilaç adayları olabilecekleri umut edilmektedir. Mevcut incelemenin verileri, farmasötik pazarda mevcut olan ve özellikle zarflı virüslere karşı gözle görülür aktiviteler gösteren en yaygın ve çok bilinen uçucu yağlara dair bilgi vermek için odaklanmıştır.

Anahtar Kelimeler: Antiviral ajanlar; COVID-19; uçucu yağlar; ökaliptol
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2.5. "USER CONTRACT": An electronically signed contract between a natural or a legal identity benefiting from special services "Turkiye Klinikleri" will provide and "Turkiye Klinikleri".

3. SCOPE OF THE SERVICES

3.1. "Turkiye Klinikleri" is completely free to determine the scope and quality of the services via the "SITE".

3.2. To benefit the services of "Turkiye Klinikleri" "SITE", the "USER" must deliver the features that will be specified by "Turkiye Klinikleri". "Turkiye Klinikleri" may change this necessity any time single-sided.

3.3. Not for a limited number, the services "Turkiye Klinikleri" will provide through the "SITE" for a certain price or for free are;

- Providing scientific articles, books and informative publications for health industry.

- Providing structural, statistical and editorial support to article preparation stage for scientific journals.

4. GENERAL PROVISIONS

4.1. "Turkiye Klinikleri" is completely free to determine which of the services and contents provided in the "SITE" will be charged.

4.2. People benefiting from the services provided by "Turkiye Klinikleri" and using the website can use the "SITE" only according to the law and only for personal reasons. Users have the criminal and civil liability for every process and action they take in the "SITE". Every USER agrees, declares and undertakes that they will not proceed by any function or action infringement of rights of "Turkiye Klinikleri"s and/or other third parties', they are the exclusive right holder on usage, processing, storage, made public and revealing any written, visual or auditory information reported to Turkiye Klinikleri" and/or "SITE" to the third parties. "USER" agrees and undertakes that s/he will not duplicate, copy, distribute, process, the pictures, text, visual and auditory images, video clips, files, databases, catalogs and lists within the "SITE", s/he will not be using these actions or with other ways to compete with "Turkiye Klinikleri", directly or indirectly.

4.3. The services provided and the context published within the "SITE" by third parties is not under the responsibility of "Turkiye Klinikleri", institutions collaborated with "Turkiye Klinikleri", "Turkiye Klinikleri" employee and directors, "Turkiye Klinikleri" authorized salespeople. Commitment to accuracy and legality of the published information, context, visual and auditory images provided by any third party are under the full responsibility of the third party. "Turkiye Klinikleri" does not promise and guarantee the safety, accuracy and legality of the services and context provided by a third party.

4.4. "USER"s cannot act against "Turkiye Klinikleri", other "USER"s and third parties by using the "SITE". "Turkiye Klinikleri" has no direct and/or indirect responsibility for any damage a third party suffered or will suffer regarding "USER"s actions on the "SITE" against the rules of the hereby "Terms of Use" and the law.

4.5. "USER"s accept and undertake that the information and context they provided to the "SITE" are accurate and legal. "Turkiye Klinikleri" is not liable and responsible for promising and guaranteeing the verification of the information and context transmitted to "Turkiye Klinikleri" by the "USER"s, or uploaded, changed and provided through the "SITE" by them and whether these information are safe, accurate and legal.

4.6. "USER"s agree and undertake that they will not perform any action leading to unfair competition, weakening the personal and commercial credit of "Turkiye Klinikleri" and a third party,  encroaching and attacking on personal rights within the "SITE" in accordance with the Turkish Commercial Code Law.

4.7. "Turkiye Klinikleri" reserves the right to change the services and the context within the "SITE"  anytime. "Turkiye Klinikleri" may use this right without any notification and timelessly. "USER"s have to make the changes and/or corrections "Turkiye Klinikleri" required immediately. Any changes and/or corrections that are required by "Turkiye Klinikleri", may be made by "Turkiye Klinikleri" when needed. Any harm, criminal and civil liability resulted or will result from changes and/or corrections required by "Turkiye Klinikleri" and were not made on time by the "USER"s belongs completely to the users.

4.8. "Turkiye Klinikleri" may give links through the "SITE" to other websites and/or "CONTEXT"s and/or folders that are outside of their control and owned and run by third parties. These links are provided for ease of reference only and do not hold qualification for support the respective web SITE or the admin or declaration or guarantee for the information inside. "Turkiye Klinikleri" does not hold any responsibility over the web-sites connected through the links on the "SITE", folders and context, the services or products on the websites provided through these links or their context.

4.9. "Turkiye Klinikleri" may use the information provided to them by the "USERS" through the "SITE" in line with the terms of the "PRIVACY POLICY" and "USER CONTRACT". It may process the information or classify and save them on a database. "Turkiye Klinikleri" may also use the USER's or visitor's identity, address, e-mail address, phone number, IP number, which sections of the "SITE" they visited, domain type, browser type, date and time information to provide statistical evaluation and customized services.

5. PROPRIETARY RIGHTS

5.1. The information accessed through this "SITE" or provided by the users legally and all the elements (including but not limited to design, text, image, html code and other codes) of the "SITE" (all of them will be called as studies tied to "Turkiye Klinikleri"s copyrights) belongs to "Turkiye Klinikleri". Users do not have the right to resell, process, share, distribute, display or give someone permission to access or to use the "Turkiye Klinikleri" services, "Turkiye Klinikleri" information and the products under copyright protection by "Turkiye Klinikleri". Within hereby "Terms of Use" unless explicitly permitted by "Turkiye Klinikleri" nobody can reproduce, process, distribute or produce or prepare any study from those under "Turkiye Klinikleri" copyright protection.

5.2. Within hereby "Terms of Use", "Turkiye Klinikleri" reserves the rights for "Turkiye Klinikleri" services, "Turkiye Klinikleri" information, the products associated with "Turkiye Klinikleri" copyrights, "Turkiye Klinikleri" trademarks, "Turkiye Klinikleri" trade looks or its all rights for other entity and information it has through this website unless it is explicitly authorized by "Turkiye Klinikleri".

6. CHANGES IN THE TERMS OF USE

"Turkiye Klinikleri" in its sole discretion may change the hereby "Terms of Use" anytime announcing within the "SITE". The changed terms of the hereby "Terms of Use" will become valid when they are announced. Hereby "Terms of Use" cannot be changed by unilateral declarations of users.

7. FORCE MAJEURE

"Turkiye Klinikleri" is not responsible for executing late or never of this hereby "Terms of Use", privacy policy and "USER Contract" in any situation legally taken into account as force majeure. Being late or failure of performance or non-defaulting of this and similar cases like this will not be the case from the viewpoint of "Turkiye Klinikleri", and "Turkiye Klinikleri" will not have any damage liability for these situations. "Force majeure" term will be regarded as outside of the concerned party's reasonable control and any situation that "Turkiye Klinikleri" cannot prevent even though it shows due diligence. Also, force majeure situations include but not limited to natural disasters, rebellion, war, strike, communication problems, infrastructure and internet failure, power cut and bad weather conditions.

8. LAW AND AUTHORISATION TO FOLLOW

Turkish Law will be applied in practicing, interpreting the hereby "Terms of Use" and managing the emerging legal relationships within this "Terms of Use" in case of finding element of foreignness, except for the rules of Turkish conflict of laws. Ankara Courts and Enforcement Offices are entitled in any controversy happened or may happen due to hereby contract.

9. CLOSING AND AGREEMENT

Hereby "Terms of Use" come into force when announced in the "SITE" by "Turkiye Klinikleri". The users are regarded to agree to hereby contract terms by using the "SITE". "Turkiye Klinikleri" may change the contract terms and the changes will be come into force by specifying the version number and the date of change on time it is published in the "SITE".

 

30.03.2014

Privacy Policy

We recommend you to read the terms of use below before you visit our website. In case you agree these terms, following our rules will be to your favor. Please read our Terms of Use thoroughly.

www.turkiyeklinikleri.com website belongs to Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. and is designed in order to inform physicians in the field of health

www.turkiyeklinikleri.com cannot reach to user’s identity, address, service providers or other information. The users may send this information to the website through forms if they would like to. However, www.turkiyeklinikleri.com may collect your hardware and software information. The information consists of your IP address, browser type, operating system, domain name, access time, and related websites. www.turkiyeklinikleri.com cannot sell the provided user information (your name, e-mail address, home and work address, phone number) to the third parties, publish it publicly, or keep it in the website. Gathered information has a directing feature to be a source for the website’s visitor profile, reporting and promotion of the services.

www.turkiyeklinikleri.com uses the taken information:

-To enhance, improve and maintain the quality of the website

-To generate visitor’s profile and statistical data

-To determine the tendency of the visitors on using our website

-To send print publications/correspondences

-To send press releases or notifications through e-mail

-To generate a list for an event or competition

By using www.turkiyeklinikleri.com you are considered to agree that;

-Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. cannot be hold responsible for any user’s illegal and immoral behavior,

-Terms of use may change from time to time,

-It is not responsible for other websites’ contents it cannot control or the harms they may cause although it uses the connection they provided.

Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. may block the website to users in the following events:

-Information with wrong, incomplete, deceiving or immoral expressions is recorded to the website,

-Proclamation, advertisement, announcement, libelous expressions are used against natural person or legal identity,

-During various attacks to the website,

-Disruption of the website because of a virus.

Written, visual and audible materials of the website, including the code and the software are under protection by legal legislation.

Without the written consent of Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. the information on the website cannot be downloaded, changed, reproduced, copied, republished, posted or distributed.

All rights of the software and the design of the website belong to Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc.

Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. will be pleased to hear your comments about our terms of use. Please share the subjects you think may enrich our website or if there is any problem regarding our website.

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