Abstract

HERBAL MOSQUITO REPELLENT: A REVIEW

Vaishali H. Patil* and Nital M. Patil

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Abstract

A mosquito repellent is a substance applied to skin, clothing, or other surfaces which discourages mosquitoes from landing on that surface. Many medicinal herbs and their essential oil has been reported to have many pharmacological activities and one of which is their property to repel the mosquitoes. Mosquitoes are small, midge like flies that belongs to the family Culicidae which transmit extremely harmful diseases and rendering it to the deadliest animal family in the world. The main objective of this review to study mechanism of mosquito repellent need of herbal mosquito repellent and herbal plants and their essential oils that are used as mosquito repellent.

Keywords: Herbal mosquito repellent, essential oils, etc.