Abstract
Recently, most of the rural areas people are using alternative medicine for the treatment of diseases because they believe that natural medicine is always safe and economical. In the Gulf region, the Ammi majus (A. majus) is used traditionally as a safe and sustainable herbal medicine to treat various chronic ulcers. A. majus extracts showed significant biological activity such as antiviral, antimicrobial, antioxidant, relaxant effect, cardiovascular effect, hypotensive etc.
Highlights
Plant descriptionCoumarins and flavonoids are both secondary metabolic heterocyclic organic phytochemicals, which are very important phytochemicals for the formulation of drugs due to their medicinal values
The particular plant species including nine synonyms is existing in Oman
Almost all nine synonyms including A. majus are available in the Arabian Gulf
Summary
Plant descriptionCoumarins and flavonoids are both secondary metabolic heterocyclic organic phytochemicals, which are very important phytochemicals for the formulation of drugs due to their medicinal values. The selected particular plant species has potential medicinal action against different incurable human diseases. Only few studies related to biological activities have been conducted on the selected plant species grown in Oman by our group. None of them isolated the phytochemicals from the selected plant species which was grown in Oman.
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