43 Hop and medicinal plants, Year XXI, No. 1-2 (41-42), 2013 ISSN 1454-7805 MONITORING OF SOME MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANT IN ECOLOGICAL AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM VﾂRBAN Dan Ioan, Marcel MateiDUDA, Rodica VﾂRBAN, Leon MUNTEAN, Sorin MUNTEAN University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Cluj-Napoca, RO dan_varban@yahoo.com Abstract. In the second year (2010), Salvia officinalis L., the average weight of the plant, leaves and vegetative shoots increases from the first phase up to the fourth phase, harvesting, respectively, and the average weight of shoots and buds increases from the first up to the third phase, harvesting, respectively, and decreases in the fourth harvesting phase. Based on the biometric determinations, the average plant weight of Ocimum basilicum L. increased from the first harvesting phase to the fifth (from 60.8 g to 150.1 g); Based on bio-morphological determinations we concluded that average plant weight of Satureja hortensis L., increased from the first up to the forth harvesting phase (from 27,5 g to 130,7 g). Key words: biomorphological determinations, Salvia officinalis L., Ocimum basilicum L., Satureja hortensis L. Introduction Salvia officinalis L., was described by C. Linnae in 1753, and the name of Salvia has the origin in the latin ”salvare”, to be healthy, to heal, to save, and officinalis referrs to the medical use of the plant. The medical doctor Gallenos (II nd centrury a.c.) ephasized the tonic, diuretical and homeostasic traits of the sage, and beginning with XVI th century, the use of the oil of this plant is well known. The Greeks used the sage for the treatments of the illness of digestive tube, gastric ulcer, and even as remedy for the snakes bites. In the Roman Empire the sage was considered as holly plant and even special ceremonies were kett in the honour of the sage, when harvesting time came; it was also used as food supplement, because it was considered that it stimulates memory, but is was also used as tooth paste. The herba (Salviae herba) and folium (Salviae folium), harvested in the beginning of flowering are used from the sage. In herba, volatile oil brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk