Influence of soil composition on the major, minor and trace metal content of Velebit biomedical plants.
The use of medical herbs for the treatment of many human diseases is increasing nowadays due to their mild features and low side effects. Not only for their healing properties, but also for their nutritive value supplementation of diet with various herbs is recommended. Thus also their analysis is of rising importance. While total elemental compositions are published for many common herbs, the origin of toxic as well as beneficial elements is not yet well investigated. Thus different indigenous medicinal plants, namely Croatian spruce (Picea abies), savory (Satureja montana L.), mountain yarrow (Achillea clavennae), showy calamint (Calamintha grandiflora), micromeria (Micromeria croatica), yellow gentian (Gentiana lutea) and fir (Abies alba) together with soil samples were collected in the National Park Northern Velebit. The macro- and trace elements content, after microwave digestion, was determined by inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectroscopy (ICP-AES) and inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy (ICP-MS). The study focuses on the one hand on essential elements and on the other hand on non-essential elements which are considered as toxic for humans, covering in total Al, As, B, Ba, Ca, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, K, Mg, Mn, Na, Ni, Pb, Sr and Zn.
['Zeiner|Michaela|M|', 'Juranović Cindrić|Iva|I|', 'Požgaj|Martina|M|', 'Pirkl|Raimund|R|', 'Šilić|Tea|T|', 'Stingeder|Gerhard|G|']
D017523:Croatia D006801:Humans D013058:Mass Spectrometry D008670:Metals D008872:Microwaves D010946:Plants, Medicinal D012987:Soil D013054:Spectrophotometry, Atomic D014131:Trace Elements
Soil composition Metals Velebit Medical plants Uptake