Chemical composition and biological activities of essential oils from Pectis spp.
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medicinal plants, essential oils, natural products, monoterpenes, perillyl alcoholAbstract
Natural products from the Brazilian flora have been presented as a vast source of bioactive compounds for the development of drugs. Among the native plants of the national flora, those of the genus Pectis can be found in various hot and dry habitats. The objective of this study was to conduct a review of the available scientific literature on the chemical composition and biological activities of Pectis spp. A search was performed on the Web of Science, Scopus and Pubmed databases using the descriptor “Pectis”. Essential oils and natural compounds of the genus are rich in monoterpenes, citral, thymol, cumaldehyde, perillaldehyde, limonene and perillyl alcohol. These compounds confer to these oils biological activities corroborated by the literature as antibacterial, antifungal, nematicidal, larvicidal, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, and soothing, among others. It can be concluded that the extracts obtained from Pectis spp. have the potential to be used as an alternative to conventional treatments for infectious and inflammatory diseases, but clinical and toxicological (safety) studies need to be carried out.
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