CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS AND BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES OF SEVEN IRANIAN SATUREJA SPECIES- A REVIEW

*Abdolhossein Rustaiyan PhD, Mansoureh Davoodi PhD Scholar and Fataneh Narchin PhD Scholar

ABSTRACT

Plants Play a vital role in maintaining human health and contribute toward important of human life. They are important components of medicines, cosmetics, dyes, beverages etc. Plants have been one of the important sources of Medicines, even since the down of human civilization. The present review describes the chemical and biological activities of seven Iranian Satureja species namely Satureja atropatana Bunge., S. bachtiarica Bunge., S. Boissieri Hausskn. ex Boiss., S. edmondi Briquet., S. hortensis L., S. intermedia C. A. Mey. And S. isophylla Rech. f.

Keywords: Seven Iranian Satureja species, Chemical Components, Biological Activities Labiatae.