Abstract
The previous studies revealed that Equisetum arvense contained alkaloids, carbohydrate, proteins and amino acids, phytosterols, saponins, sterols, ascorbic acid, silicic acid, phenol, tannin, flavonoids, triterpenoids, volatile oils and many other biological active constituents. E. arvense has been used as a folklore medicine for treatment of various conditions such as tuberculosis, as a catarrh in the kidney and bladder regions, as a hematostatic for profuse menstruation, nasal, pulmonary, gastric hemorrhages and many other uses. The current review highlights the uses and phytochemical constituents of E. arvense.
Highlights
Plants that possess therapeutic properties or exert beneficial pharmacological effects on the human body are generally designated as medicinal plants
The previous studies revealed that Equisetum arvense contained alkaloids, carbohydrate, proteins and amino acids, phytosterols, saponins, sterols, ascorbic acid, silicic acid, phenol, tannin, flavonoids, triterpenoids, volatile oils and many other biological active constituents
E. arvense has been used as a folklore medicine for treatment of various conditions such as tuberculosis, as a catarrh in the kidney and bladder regions, as a hematostatic for profuse menstruation, nasal, pulmonary, gastric hemorrhages and many other uses
Summary
Plants that possess therapeutic properties or exert beneficial pharmacological effects on the human body are generally designated as medicinal plants. Medicinal plants naturally synthesize and accumulate some secondary metabolites like alkaloids, sterols, terpenes, flavonoids, saponins and glycosides. The medicinal plants have been used for the treatment of diseases and illness since the ancient times [1]. Like any other country of Middle East and elsewhere in the world, is differentiated into two societies: rural and urban; both of these societies depend largely on the rich traditional heritage of the use of medicinal plants for the treatment of different illnesses, folk medicine is widely practiced by the people of the cities and the inhabitants of the remote areas or the nomads who generally inhabit the desert areas of the steppe and the uplands [2-3]
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