THERAPEUTIC PROPERTIES OF MEDICINAL PLANTS: A REVIEW OF PLANTS WITH ANTICANCER ACTIVITY (PART 1)
Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, Thi qar University, Iraq
Many previous studies showed that a wide range of medicinal plants exerted cytotoxic and anticancer activity. These plants included: Adonis aestivalis, Ailanthus altissima, Alhagi maurorum, Allium cepa, Allium porrum, Allium sativum, Allium schoenoprasum, Althaea officinalis, Althaea rosea, Ammannia baccifera, Anagyris foetida, Anchusa italica, Antirrhinum majus, Aristolochiamaurorum, Apium graveolens, Arctium Lappa, Aristolochia maurorum, Artemisiacampestris, Arundo donax, Asclepias curassavica, Asparagus officinalis, Astragalus hamosus, Bauhinia variegate, Bellis perennis, Betula alba, Bidens tripartite, Brassica rapa, Bryonia dioica, Bryophyllum calycinum, Caccinia crassifolia, Caesalpinia crista, Calendula officinalis, Calotropis procera, Canna indica, Capparis spinosa, Capsella bursa-pastoris, Capsicum annuum, Capsicum frutescens, Carthamus tinctorius, Casuarina equisetifolia, Celosia cristata, Chenopodium album and Chrozophora tinctoria. This review was designed to highlight the anticancer effects of the medicinal plants as asource of pharmaceutical research and therapeutic uses
6 , 1 , 2016
30 - 50
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