CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF SOME LIBYAN MEDICINAL PLANTS (II)

Date

2002-1

Type

Article

Journal title

مجلة جامعة الزاوية

Issue

Vol. 0 No. 4

Author(s)

Bahlul Zayed Sh Awen

Pages

33 - 40

Abstract

Traditional medicine has been practiced for the last several thousand years, and in one form or another is wide spread through out the world Its practices are based on beliefs that were in existence, often for hundreds of years, before the development and spread of modern scientific medicine and that still prevalent today. TMs study represents chemical investigations (phytochemical screening) of some medicinal plants; reveal its major active components such as alkaloids, anthraquinones, coumarins, flavonoids, saponins, terpenes and tannins.