“…Their common characteristic is that they are perennial shrubs that prefer rocky and calcareous growing conditions, especially mountain forests, meadows and pastures from Europe and Anatoly [8,9,14,16]. Various research groups from these areas identified the same species as rich in essential oil, phenyl-glycosides iridoids and sterols with good antibacterial, antifungal and food preservative properties [1,3,11]. The available data suggests that different extracts from these species possess antioxidative, antimicrobial, antiviral, hepatoprotective, cytotoxic and antimutagenic effects, although the main investigated fraction was represented by the volatile oil [24,25].…”