Advances in chemical constituents and bioactivity of Salvia genus.
- Author:
Qing PENG
;
Jian-xun LIU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
Diterpenes;
isolation & purification;
Plant Extracts;
pharmacology;
Salvia;
chemistry;
Sesquiterpenes;
isolation & purification;
Triterpenes;
isolation & purification
- From:
China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica
2015;40(11):2096-2105
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
The genus Salvia in the family Lamiaceae with nearly 1 000 species, is widespread in temperate and tropical regions around the world. Many species of genus Salvia are important medicinal plants with a long history of which Danshen (the dried roots and rhizomes of S. miltiorrhiza) is one of the most popular herbal traditional medicines in Asian countries. The chemical constituents from Salvia plants mainly contain sesquiterpenoids, diterpenoids, triterpenoids, steroids and polyphenols etc, which exhibit antibacterial, antidermatophytic, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antineoplastic, antiplatelet aggregation activities and so on. In this article, the development of new constituents and their biological activities of Salvia genus in the past five years were reviewed and summarized for its further development and utilization.
