“…Hence, we aimed at designing and characterizing biologically acceptable novel cinnamon oil-based microemulsion system as drug delivery vehicle for azithromycin with minimum components in them. Cinnamon oil, chosen in this study, is known to possess diverse functions including analgesic, antiallergic, antidiabetic, antimicrobial, antioxidant, antipyretic, antispastic, antithrombotic, antiulcerogenic, anxiolytic, and antiulcerous effects (33)(34)(35)(36)(37)(38). Also, Cinnamomum zeylanicum has eugenol and transcinnamaldehyde as the major components in them (39).…”