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. 2018 Sep 11;9(3):201-205.
doi: 10.1016/j.jtcme.2018.09.001. eCollection 2019 Jul.

Athyrium plants - Review on phytopharmacy properties

Bahare Salehi  1 , Shahira M Ezzat  2   3 , Patrick Valere Tsouh Fokou  4 , Sevil Albayrak  5 , Sanja Vlaisavljevic  6 , Majid Sharifi-Rad  7 , Indra D Bhatt  8 , Mehdi Sharifi-Rad  9 , Tarun Belwal  8 , Seyed Abdulmajid Ayatollahi  10   11 , Farzad Kobarfard  10   12 , Athar Ata  11 , Navid Baghalpour  10 , Miquel Martorell  13 , William N Setzer  14 , Javad Sharifi-Rad  15
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Athyrium plants - Review on phytopharmacy properties

Bahare Salehi et al. J Tradit Complement Med. .

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    [No authors listed] [No authors listed] J Tradit Complement Med. 2020 Sep 28;10(6):605. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcme.2020.09.001. eCollection 2020 Nov. J Tradit Complement Med. 2020. PMID: 33134138 Free PMC article.

Abstract

Athyrium plants consist of more than 230 species that are largely distributed in the Sino-Himalayan region and the Western Pacific islands. Athyrium species are being used in traditional medicine worldwide to treat various ailments such as cough, rheumatic pain, scorpion stings, sores, burns and scalds, intestinal fever, pain, specifically breast pain during child birth, to increase milk flow, as an antiparasitic, anthelmintic, and carminative. A deep look in the literature has revealed that Athyrium species have been poorly investigated for their food preservative applications and in vivo and in vitro biological and phytochemical studies. However, some Athyrium species have demonstrated antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antiproliferative and anti-HIV potential. Athyrium multidentatum (Doll.) Ching is the most investigated species and the biological activities of their extracts, such as they antioxidant properties, seem to be related to the sulfate contents of their polysaccharides. This review provides an update on the ethnopharmacology, phytochemistry and biological properties of Athyrium plants that might be useful for further research. Of course, well-designed clinical trials will be required for some species to be used as therapy.

Keywords: Athyrium; Biological activities; Ethnobotany; Ethnopharmacology; Phytoconstituents.

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