Chemical composition and anti-inflammatory activity of an alcoholic extract of Teucrium polium L.
In the Teucrium polium L. were identified, by gaschromatographic and spectroscopic techniques (1H-NMR and MS), beta-sitosterol, stigmasterol, campesterol, brassicasterol and clerosterol. In the aqueous phase of the alcoholic extract were identified glucose, fructose, raffinose and rhamnose by PC on Watmann paper Number 5. Anti-inflammatory activity was tested using male Wistar rats against carrageenin-induced paw oedema. All tested extract shown a sufficient pharmacological activity compared to that of indomethacine.
D000818:Animals; D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents / Q000032:analysis*; D004487:Edema / Q000188:drug therapy; D000431:Ethanol; D008297:Male; D010936:Plant Extracts / Q000032:analysis* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains
D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents; D010936:Plant Extracts; D000431:Ethanol