“…The plant contains a diversity of interesting metabolites, including hydroxycinnamic acids and flavonoids (Bartolome et al, 2013). Aside its use as a source of food, B. pilosa is used in folklore medicine not only in the treatment of more than 40 diseases in man (Borges et al, 2013) but also as resistance-modifying agents (Darwish, Aburjai, Al-Khalil, Mahafza, & Al-Abbadi, 2002). Some of its important biological activities include antimicrobial (Silva et al, 2014), anticancer and antipyretic (Sundararajan et al, 2006), anti-oxidative (Yang et al, 2006), anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic (Horiuchi & Seyama, 2008), antidiabetic (Lai et al, 2015) as well as many other beneficial activities as reviewed in other studies (Bairwa et al, 2010;Bartolome et al, 2013).…”