Lemon Verbena

Aloysia triphylla

Other Names:

Lemon Beebrush

Benefits

Antioxidant
Anti-inflammatory
Antiviral
Immunity
Gastroprotective

Lemon verbena (Aloysia triphylla) is a perennial shrub which produces small purple and white flowers that is native to South America. It has a powerful lemony aroma that intensifies when the leaves and flowers are touched or bruised. Essential oil extracted from lemon verbena contains high amounts of antioxidants, specifically verbascoside, nerol, geraniol, and citral. Specific applications studied in poultry include:

Heat stress: A research study was conducted on 160 broiler chickens to investigate the effect of lemon verbena powder and vitamin C on performance and immunity of broilers under heat stress. Results of the study confirmed that supplementing chickens' diet with 1.0% lemon verbena powder and 250 mg/kg of vitamin C added to the diet helped to suppress the negative effects caused by heat stress.

Poultry Specific Studies

Type	Plant Part	Dosage	Specific use	Results	Ref
Chickens	powder	0.5% and 1.0% diet	immunity, heat stress	When combined with vitamin C, improved some performance data and blood metabolites which somehow suppressed the negative effects of heat stress.	F Rafiee et al., 2016

References

Rafiee F, Mazhari M, Ghoreishi M, Esmaeilipour O.. "Effect of lemon verbena powder and vitamin C on performance and immunity of heat-stressed broilers." J Anim Physiol Anim Nutr ( (2016)
Pereira, C., Barros, L., & Ferreira, I. C. "A comparison of the nutritional contribution of thirty-nine aromatic plants used as condiments and/or herbal infusions" Plant Foods for Human Nutrition (2015)
de las M OLIVA, M., Carezzano, E., Gallucci, N., Freytes, S., Zygadlo, J. A., & Mirta-Susana, D. E. M. O.. "Growth inhibition and morphological alterations of Staphylococcus aureus caused by the essential oil of Aloysia triphylla." Boletín Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Plantas Medicinales y Aromáticas (2015)
Irani, M., Varastegani, A., Ziarlarimi, A., & Jadidi, B. I. . "The effects different levels of aniseed (Pimpinella anisum L.) medicinal plant on laying hens performance" Journal of Medicinal Plants Research (2013)

Lemon Verbena

Aloysia triphylla

Other Names:

Benefits

Poultry Specific Studies

References

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