Preclinical research showed eugenol has therapeutic properties in the following diseases:
- Anti-bacterial (Campylobacter jejuni) (Upadhyay et al., 2017)
- Anti-bacterial (Pseudomonas aeruginosa) (Rathinam et al., 2017)
- Anti-inflammatory (Han and Parker, 2017)
- Antioxidant and anti-bacterial (Zhang et al., 2017)
- Breast pre-cancerous lesions (Ma et al., 2017)
- Diabetes (Hafizur et al., 2017)
- epilepsy (Joushi and Salmani, 2017)
- leukemia, protective against arsenic trioxide chemotherapy (Binu et al., 2017)
- Mosquito larvicide (Govindarajan et al., 2016)(Thomas et al., 2017)
- Mosquito repellent (Ali et al., 2017)
- Neuropathic pain (Paula-Freire et al., 2016)
- Neuroprotective in aluminium toxicity (Said and Rabo, 2017)
- obesity (Ding et al., 2017)
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