“…Plants of this genus are used in traditional medicine for their anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antiseptic properties (Jana et al, 1992) and as aromatic and digestive substance in tea (Bellakhdar, 1997). In addition, it has been reported as antipyretic (Larhsini et al, 2002), bacteriostatic (Jana et al, 1992), antiprotozoal (Markouk et al, 1999) and anticorrosive (Benmenine et al, 2011). Several flavonoids (Ahmed et al, 1987;Mahran et al, 1976), alkaloids (Mahjoub et al, 2012), sesquiterpene lactones (Jakupovitch et al, 1988;Metwalli et al, 1986) and coumarins (Greger et al, 1985) were isolated from this genus.…”