Abstract
Abstract Medicinal plants are nature’s gift to human beings to make disease-free healthy life and play a vital role to preserve our health. They are believed to be much safer and proven elixir in the treatment of various ailments. In Unani System of Medicine, Darmana Turki ( Artemisia maritima L.) a member of Asteraceae (Compositae) family is well known as Afsantin al-Bahr, Shih and Darmana. This plant grows abundantly in the high altitudes of the Himalayas from Kumaon to North-West Kashmir, covers the vast areas of plateau lands, mountain slopes, and in Gurez and Kistwar valleys. It is fairly common in Kulu valley and in Lahul and Spiti in Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh. It is a deciduous perennial shrub with much branched woody rootstock. Plant bark is rough, fibrous, twigs striated, hoary or somewhat white woody. It is documented as Muḥallil-i-Riyāḥ (Gas Resolvent), Muqattiḥ (diluting), Mufattiḥ (Deobstruent), Muḥallil-i-Waram (anti-inflammatory), Munbit Sha‘r (hair growing), Mukhrij-i-Dīdān (Vermifuge), Qātil-e-Dīdān (Anthelmintic), Tiryāq-e-Samūm (Antidote) and recommended to be used in Dīdān-i-Am‘a (Intestinal Worms/Helminthiasis), Dā’ al-Tha‘lab (Alopecia), Ḥuzāz (lichen/Seborrhoea Dandruff), Lasa‘t ul-‘Aqrab (Scorpion sting poisoning) and Rutaila (Tarantula), etc., It has also been investigated for anthelmintic, antimalarial, hepatoprotective, antimicrobial, antibacterial, anti-diabetic, anti-fertility, juvenoid, cytotoxic, and anti-tumors activities, etc., Many chemical constituents have also been isolated from A . maritima L. as Santonin (C 15 H 18 O 3 , M P 170-72°), two crystalline compounds, viz . β-santonin, a stereoisomer at C11 position (m p 216°–18°) and pseudosantonin (m p 190°), artemisin. Beside this essential oil revealed the presence of α and β pinenes, camphene, cineol (34.5%), thujone, dicyclic aldehyde camphor, bornyl acetate, citral, α-terpineol, and a sequiterpene (possibly β-caryophyllene), etc., The present review is a critique of the literature on traditional ethnopharmacology, pharmacognosy, phytochemistry, pharmacology as well as therapeutic medicinal potentialof Darmana Turkī ( A . maritima L.).
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Claims 5
Claim · model-written summary
Artemisia maritima is reported across Himalayan high altitudes and several valleys.
- Taxon
- Artemisia maritima L.
Artemisia maritimat0 - Outcome
- grows abundantlye0
- Setting
- high altitudes of the Himalayas from Kumaon to North-West Kashmire0
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Verbatim
e0“This plant grows abundantly in the high altitudes of the Himalayas from Kumaon to North-West Kashmir, covers the vast areas of plateau lands, mountain slopes, and in Gurez and Kistwar valleys.”
t0“Artemisia maritima L.”
Claim · model-written summary
Artemisia maritima is described as a deciduous perennial shrub with a branched woody rootstock.
- Taxon
- Artemisia maritima L.Artemisia maritimat0
- Outcome
- deciduous perennial shrub with much branched woody rootstocke0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“It is a deciduous perennial shrub with much branched woody rootstock.”
t0“Artemisia maritima L.”
Claim · model-written summary
Its bark and twigs have the described texture and color.
- Taxon
- Artemisia maritima L.Artemisia maritimat0
- Outcome
- bark is rough, fibrous, twigs striated, hoary or somewhat white woodye0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Plant bark is rough, fibrous, twigs striated, hoary or somewhat white woody.”
t0“Artemisia maritima L.”
Claim · model-written summary
Santonin, β-santonin, pseudosantonin and artemisin were isolated from Artemisia maritima.
- Taxon
- A . maritima L.Artemisia maritimae0
- Outcome
- Santonine0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Many chemical constituents have also been isolated from A . maritima L. as Santonin (C 15 H 18 O 3 , M P 170-72°), two crystalline compounds, viz . β-santonin, a stereoisomer at C11 position (m p 216°–18°) and pseudosantonin (m p 190°), artemisin.”
Claim · model-written summary
The essential oil contained several named constituents.
- Taxon
- Artemisia maritima L.Artemisia maritimat0
- Outcome
- presence of α and β pinenes, camphene, cineole0
- Value
- 34.5%e0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“essential oil revealed the presence of α and β pinenes, camphene, cineol (34.5%), thujone, dicyclic aldehyde camphor, bornyl acetate, citral, α-terpineol, and a sequiterpene (possibly β-caryophyllene)”
t0“Artemisia maritima L.”