Medical Ethics and Law Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran 88777539, Iran.
Student Research Committee, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran 22439789, Iran.
Int J Mol Sci. 2018 Sep 19;19(9):2843. doi: 10.3390/ijms19092843.
genus plants, distributed in Old World, are widely known and have been used for centuries as topical and oral therapeutic agents due to their health, beauty, medicinal, and skin care properties. Among the well-investigated species are , , , and . Today, they account among the most economically important medicinal plants and are commonly used in primary health treatment, where they play a pivotal role in the treatment of various types of diseases via the modulation of biochemical and molecular pathways, besides being a rich source of valuable phytochemicals. In the present review, we summarized the recent advances in botany, phytochemical composition, ethnobotanical uses, food preservation, and the preclinical and clinical efficacy of plants. These data will be helpful to provide future directions for the industrial and medicinal use of plants.
属植物分布于旧大陆，由于其具有健康、美容、药用和皮肤护理等特性，已被广泛认知和使用了数个世纪，作为局部和口服治疗药物。其中研究较多的物种有、、和。如今，它们是最具经济重要性的药用植物之一，常用于基础保健治疗，通过调节生化和分子途径，在治疗各种类型疾病方面发挥关键作用，同时也是有价值植物化学物质的丰富来源。在本综述中，我们总结了属植物的植物学、植物化学组成、民族植物学用途、食品保鲜以及临床前和临床疗效的最新进展。这些数据将有助于为属植物的工业和药用用途提供未来方向。
