본 연구는 산화가 초본층의 발생 및 토양의 화학적 특성에 미친 영향을 조사하기 위해 2000년 4월 대전의 계족산에서 발생한 산화지를 대상으로 실시되었다. 식생조사는 곰솔우점림 (침엽수림)과 아까시나무우점림(활엽수림)에서 10m×10m의 방형구를 설치하여 실시하였고, 초본층의 발생조사는 7월 21일 Dierssen의 우점도법을 적용하여 실시되었다. 초본층의 피도는 침「활엽수지역 모두에서 산화지가 비산화지보다 높았으며, 출현종수는 산화지와 비산화지의 차이보다 침「활엽수 간에 차이가 더 높았다 토양 시료는 비산화지, 그리고 산화지에서 산화 3일 후 그리고 산화 8개월 후에 0～10cm와 10～20cm 토양깊이에서 채취되었다. 토양 유기물층은 비산화지에서는 깊이가 약 1.5cm이었으나 산화지에서는 유기물층이 없었다. 산화 발생 3일 후 산화지와 비산화지 간의 토양 유기물, 전질소, 유기인산, 치환성 양이온함량, pH및 CEC는 유의적인 차이가 없는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 산화지에서 산화 3일 후와 약 8개월 후의 토양의 화학적 특성들은 일부를 제외하고는 유의적인 차이가 없었다.

생약제 농축액의 품질 안정성을 확보하기 위한 기초자료를 제공하고자 생약제 농축액에서 수분 활성도 변화에 따른 미생물 성장 변화 및 일부 이화학적 특성 변화를 조사하였다. 수분활성도를 각각 0.86, 0.80, 0.69로 조정한 생약제 농축액을 40℃에서 180일 동안 저장한 후 세균의 생균수를 측정한 결과 수분활성도 0.86(수분활성도 63.85%)시료의 경우 초기생균수가 18/g에서 90일 저장시 80/g으로 180일 저장시 190/g으로 증가하였다. 수분활성도 0.80(수분함량 43.04%) 경우에는 초기생균수가 24/g에서 90일 저장시 83/g으로, 180일 저장시 170/g으로 증가하였다. 그러나 수분활성도 0.69(수분함량 33.05%)경우에는 초기생균수가 16/g에서 90일 및 180일 저장시 각각 20/g, 25/g으로 큰 균수 증가를 나타내지 않았다. 한편 수분활성도에 따른 병원성 미생물의 성장은 수분활성도가 낮을수록 저해되었으며 C. albicans, A. niger의 경우 28℃에서 30일 저장 후 초기생균수가 150/g, 140/g에서 각각 30/g, 20/g으로 크게 감소하였고, E. coli, S. aureus, P. aeruginosa의 경우에도 수분활성도 0.69 시료에서는 37℃에서 30일 저장 후 생균수가 0로 나타나서 균은 완전히 사멸되었다. 수분활성도 0.85, 0.80, 0.69시료에서 pH 의 변화는 180일 저장시의 pH에서 초기 pH를 뺀 pH의 감소폭이 자각 0.84, 0.72, 0.31로 나타나서 수분활성도가 낮을수록 pH의 감소폭이 적은 경향이었다. 생약제 농축액에 포함된 인삼 중의 지표성분인 사포닌은 180일 저장한 시료에서 측정한 사포닌함량에서 저장초기 시료의 함량을 뺀 사포닌함량의 감소폭은 0.12~0.30%로 나타나서 비교적 작은 편이었다. 또한 생약제 농축액에 감미료, 산미료 등의 첨가물을 첨가하여 40℃에서 60일 및 180일 동안 저장한 후 TLC로 사포닌을 조사한 결과 모든 사포닌이 확인되어 이러한 조건에서 사포닌은 안정한 것으로 생각된다.

Irradiated and non-irradiated Korean medicinal herbs were extracted by water and 70% ethanol. Antimicrobial activity of these extracts were investigated against selected food hygiene microoganisms. The ethanol extracts of the non-irradiated Agrimonia pilosa ledebour japonica Nakai, Curcuma longa Linne and Angelica gigas Nakai were completely inhibited on four species of bacteria, such as Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Clostridium perfringenes, Bacillus subtilis and Staphylococcus aureus. Also, above four strains did not have antibacterial activity in the water-ethanol mixtures. Futhermore, the ethanol extracts of the non-irradiated Agrimonia pilosa ledebour Japonica Nakai, Curcuma ledoaria Roscoe, Curcuma longa Linne and Scutellaria baikalensis George were shown inhibitory effects against Aspergillus flavus and Penicillium islandicum. And the water extract of Scutellaria baikalensis George was the same effect to these molds. Essentially the same results were observed when samples irradiated at a dose of 10 kGy.

경북의성 약용작물재배지에서 뿌리혹선충에 대한 발생생태를 조사하기 위하여 시기별 발생소장과 토성에 따른 선충의 증식정도, 토양심도 다른 뿌리혹선충의 서식밀도를 1991년부터 1992년까지 2개년간 조사한 결과는다음과 같다. 뿌리혹선충(M.hapla)의 발생소장을 조사한 결과 유충발생 최성기는 4월초순, 6월중순, 7월하순, 8월하순 등 4회였다. 토성과 뿌리혹선충과의 관계를 보면 사토와 사양토에서 뿌리혹선충의 난관 유충이 가장 많았고 식토에서는 밀도가 낮았다. 토양심도별 M.hapla 유충밀도는 작약포장에서 토심 15cm까지가 1,064~1,486마리로 가장 높았으며 50cm이상에서도 검출되었다.

Series of studies were conducted to establish biological and chemical control method for Meloidogyne spp to medical herbs by applied of nematophagous fungi, Arthrobotrys spp, Fusarium spp, and egg parastic fungi, Paecilomyces lilacinus were applied for root-knot nematodes on medicinal herbs, Paeonia albiflora, Codonopsis lanceolata, Cnidium officinale. The results are as follow. In pot experiments, The no. of root gall and egg mass and larvae of Cnidium officinale. The results are as follow. In pot experiments. The no. of root gall and egg mass and larvae of Cnidium officinale, Codonopsis lanceolata, Paeonia japonica lowered in P. Lilacinus treated plots compare to untreated control plots. But A. thaumasia F. oxysporum treated plots were less effective. Effect of egg parasitic fungi and chemical treatment at divided root of Paeonia japonica after sterilized in pot were increased in the fresh weight, root weight, control effect in P. lilacinus treated plots as chemical, Carbo G treated plots compare to untreted control plots. I field experiment, the number of root gall, egg mass and nematode density of Paeonia were also suppressed in P. lilacinus treated plots. It was very effective continuous 2 years and transplanting time on Paeonia japonica infested soil with the M. hapla in field in both region, Chillgok and Euisung treated P. lilacinus as chemical treated plots. Soaking effect of insecticide for Paeonia japonica at diving shoot before transplating in pot were effective for 12hours immersion into 1,000 ppm of Benlate T + Mep Ec, Benlate T + Fenthion EC in pot and field Experiment. In the Examination of fungi activily on P.japonica field 1 year after soil treatment, Number of spore of P. lilacinus were 1,000~1,300 in 3 region except Euisung.

In order to increase the medicinal herbs efficiency of drug delivery, vesicles contained with medicinal herbs were prepared by phosphatidylcholines and surface active agent. Vesicles loaded with medicinal herbs were characterized by UV-spectroscopy, Zetasizer. The antioxidant activity of vesicles was measured by DPPH assay and ABTS radical scavenging assays. Also, an analysis was conducted to determine the effects of anti-inflammatory of vesicles contained medicinal herbs. In addition, the whitening effects of vesicles contained medicinal herbs extract were studied via tyrosinase inhibition assay. The results of vesicles were as follows. Vesicles appeared an average diameter of approximatively 164-599 nm. All studied vesicles contained with medicinal herbs showed antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and whitening effects in a dose-dependent manner. Therefore, this experiment achieves its purpose of synthesizing of vesicles. In conclusion, we recommended that the vesicles loaded with medicinal herbs have ability for anti-aging materials. Specifically, it will apply to cosmetic ingredients.

Background : Natural substance extracted from plant is going increased to apply for agricultural industry to improve crop product. Thus, hydrosols of lavender used to cosmetic materials was treated in plant to investigate growth effect. Methods and Results : The young plants grown for 7 days from seed were transferred to pot. They have foliage dressed with lavender hydrosols diluted to 500 × at intervals of 2 days. The results of N. benthamiana grown by foliage dressing for 2 weeks were 11.37 ± 0.31 ㎝ of leaves length, 11.07 ± 0.47 ㎝ of leaves width, 14.43 ± 0.90 ㎝ of plant length. These values were investigated to more increase than control. In the results measuring plant length at 4 weeks, there had no difference in two treatments. The activities of DPPH scavenging and SOD were checked to examine the antioxidant activity in two treatments. The DPPH scavenging activity was not shown a difference in two treatments. However, SOD activity displayed at high to level of 2 times in extracts from 100% ethanol of N. benthamiana treated with lavender hydrosols in compared to control. The RT-PCR preceeded to investigate the transcriptional changes of genes related to antioxidant activity using the respective primers for 5 genes such as NbNOA1, NbNR, NbPAL, NbAPX, NbSOD. These 5 genes were known to detect as a high level in N. benthamiana treated with lavender hydrosols in transcriptionl expression. Conclusion : The influence on plant growth through lavender hydrosol treatment was represented as a promoting effect in early growth stage.

This study was implemented to verify effectiveness related to job stress, depression or fatigue of hospital workers, by let them wearing necklaces with essential oils injected which were extracted from herb plants, as an alternative therapy. For this study, totally 60 people were selected who work in K hospital located in D city, in accordance with their agreement with participation in, and who were divided into 30 and 30 for a control group and an experimental group as appropriate subjects. The study was followed for 2 weeks from June 29 of 2015 by July 10 of 2015, by letting the experimental group wearing essential oils necklaces with a distance of 20 cm from noses during working time for 8 hours per day. After inhaling essential oils by wearing the necklaces, the job stress status didn’t have obvious difference between two groups statically, such as 104.1±11.3 points from 101.2±10.3 points for the control group and 104.7±9.8 points from 104.9±9.0 points for the experimental group. In case of the depression status, the control group had no difference such as 28.8±8.0 points from 29.4±9.0 points, and the experimental group had small decrease with 0.017 points such as 26.6±5.3 points from 28.5±5.6 points. In case of the fatigue status, the control group had no difference such as 75.7±19.7 points from 72.0±19.0 points, and the experimental group had small decrease with 0.049 points such as 64.3±20.0 points from 70.5±19.0 points.

Background:The study was conducted to investigate the distributions of faecal bacteria in commercial oriental medicine herb products.Methods and Results:A survey was conducted on the microbial contamination levels and antimicrobial specificity of Bacillus cereus and other microbes using 106 oriental medicine herb products on sale in Seoul. Pouring and isolation methods such as standard plate counts were used to identify the bacteria. The isolated bacterias included coliforms, Bacillus spp., Enterococcus spp., Staphylococcus spp., Listeria spp.were identified by using gram staining and an API (analytical profile index) kit. Antimicrobial drugs discs were determined by CLSI (clinical and laboratory standards institute).Conclusions:The bacterial isolates present in the herbal medicines included 98 coliforms, 45 Bacillus spp., 29 Enterococcus spp., and 2 Listeria spp. Among these, there were nine Bacillus cereus strains, one Enterococcus faecium strain, and one Enterococcus faecalis strain present. The 9 Bacillus cereus strains were tested for susceptibility to 36 types of antibiotics products by the disc diffusion method. The strains showed resistance to 13 of these antibiotic products and semi-resistance to 5 antibiotic products. On the basis of these results, any oriental medicine herb product can be assumed to be contain resistant or semi-resistant bacterial strains. Therefore, we suggest prescribing guidelines and special management for the use of antibiotics in farms producing oriental medicine herb products.

Background : Five medicinal herbs have been selected from the preliminary screening for in vitro anti-allergy activity (in RBL-2H3 cells). The present study is conducted to investigate the inhibitory effects of the medicinal herbs on allergic inflammation in other kind of cells. Methods and Results : Cells treated with five extracts prepared from Betula costata Trautv. (aerial part), Camellia sinensis L. (aerial part), Polygonatum stenophyllum Maxim. (root), Pyrus pyrifolia var. culta (Makino) Nakai (leaf), and Rehmannia glutinosa (Gaertn.) Libosch. ex Steud. (root) were measured for mRNA levels of TNF-α on HaCaT keratinocytes stimulated by TNF-α /INF-γ and for mRNA levels of IL-2 in Jurkat T cells mediated by PMA/A23187. Pre-treatment with the five extracts reduced the mRNA levels of TNF-α in HaCaT cells and mRNA levels of IL-2 in Jurkat T cells. In particular, the leaf extract of Pyrus pyrifolia var. culta (Makino) Nakai significantly and dose-dependently decreased the mRNA levels of TNF-α and IL-2. To determine the toxicity of the extracts from the selected medicinal herbs to HaCaT cells and Jurkat T cells, the viabilities of the cells treated with several concentrations of the five extracts were measured by MTT assay. Extracts of Polygonatum stenophyllum Maxim. (root), Pyrus pyrifolia var. culta (Makino) Nakai (leaf), and Rehmannia glutinosa (Gaertn.) Libosch. ex Steud. (root) (up to 250 ㎍/㎖) did not show cytotoxic effects on HaCaT cells and Jurkat T cells. On the other hand, 250 ㎍/㎖ of extracts of Betula costata Trautv. (aerial part) and Camellia sinensis L. (aerial part) reduced cell viability in both cells. Conclusion : These results demonstrate that the leaf extract of Pyrus pyrifolia var. culta (Makino) Nakai has an anti-inflammatory effect by inhibiting pro-inflammatory cytokine expression. Therefore, the leaf of Pyrus pyrifolia var. culta (Makino) Nakai can be a useful resource for the development of anti-allergy/anti-inflammatory materials.

We investigated the local climatological characteristics of the mountain adjacent the Dongyeong herb garden in Chilgok. We established one set of automatic weather system (AWS) on a hill where development of herb garden is in progress. The observations were continued for 2 years(2013. 07-2015.06). In this study, we analyzed the observed data comparing the data of Gumi meteorological observatory (GMO). The results showed that the air temperature(relative humidity) of Dongyeong herb garden were lower(higher) than those of GMO. Especially the differences are more during warm climate season. It means that the gaps of thermal environment between two points are mainly caused by the evaporation effects of forest. In addition, we analyzed the warmth indices(warmth index and coldness index) with the observed air temperature. The warmth and coldness indices indicate about 107 and –12, respectively. The values correspond to warm temperature climate.

피부의 가장자리에 위치한 표피는 개체의 생존에 절대적으로 중요하며, 기저막에 위치한 표피줄기세포에 의해 평생 끊임없이 재생되고 있다. 표피줄기세포는 한정된 세포분열을 진행하고 각질세포로 분화하는 transit amplifying (TA)세포를 만들어 냄으로써 오랜 기간 재생에 필요한 많은 각질세포를 만들어 낼 수 있다. 본 연구 에서는 표피줄기세포 세포분열 활성화 화합물로 목단으로부터 추출한 페오놀(paeonol)을 350여 개의 화합물들 로부터 검색해 냈다. 이러한 세포분열 활성화 효능은 표피줄기세포 특이적으로 나타나며, 표피줄기세포의 지표 로 알려진 p63 단백질의 발현 경향은 페오놀을 처리한 표피줄기세포에서 변화하지 않음을 유세포분석법으로 확인하였다. 콜로니형성 분석에서는 페오놀을 처리한 표피줄기세포가 1.3배 이상 더 나은 콜로니 형성능을 보여 주었다. 그리고 PCR array 분석을 통해서 페오놀의 효능은 여러 신호전달에 의해 나타남을 알 수 있었다. 이러 한 결과들로부터 페오놀이 줄기세포성에 영향을 주지 않고 표피줄기세포의 재생능력을 향상시키므로 표피줄기 세포 활성화 물질로서 화장품 소재로 적용될 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.