Lavandula pubescens Decne LP is one of the three Lavandula species growing wildly in the Dead Sea Valley, Palestine. The products derived from the plant, including the essential oil EO , have been used in Traditional Arabic Palestinian Herbal Medicine TAPHM for centuries as therapeutic agents. ...This study demonstrates, for the first time, that LP EO might be useful for further investigation aiming at integrative CAM and clinical applications in the management of dermatophytosis, Alzheimer's disease, and obesity....