›› 2018, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (3): 790-797.doi: 10.16431/j.cnki.1671-7236.2018.03.029

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Research Progress on Pharmacological Action and Application of Tea Tree Oil

NIU Biao, LIU Yu, LIANG Jianping   

  1. Key Laboratory of New Animal Drug Project, Gansu Province, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Pharmaceutics Discovery, Ministry of Agricultural, Lanzhou Institute of Husbandry and Pharmaceutical Sciences of CAAS, Lanzhou 730050, China
  • Received:2017-09-06 Online:2018-03-20 Published:2018-03-22

Abstract:

The tea tree oil extracted from the fresh foliage of Myrtaceae tea tree oil (TTO),also known as Acacia Melaleuca oil,is a white layer of terpene type spice oil,and has a good bactericidal antibacterial and health effects,and non-toxic.In recent years,due to the abuse of antibiotics,bacterial resistance has become a worldwide topic,more and more researchers find alternatives to antibiotics from natural plants,so far tea tree oil as one of the most effective natural antibacterial agents,is expected to become a natural anti-bacterial drug which can alleviate the crisis of natural antibacterial agents in the basic drug research and research workers have been favored.Regardless of its killing of common microbes,or in veterinary drug resistance and residues have significant advantages compared to chemicals,and has a wide range of development and utilization prospects.However,due to the relatively small planting area of tea in China,coupled with the relatively backward extraction process of tea tree oil,the production cost is higher,which affects its development and utilization value in basic veterinary medicine.This paper makes a brief explanation of the related properties of tea tree oil from the related overview,extraction,main chemical composition,pharmacological action and related application.Its development has become a broad market prospects of natural antibacterial agents to provide reference,hoping to provide the basis for future research related to the theoretical basis.

Key words: plant essential oil; antibiotics; pharmacological action; application

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