“…Gypsophila L., belonging to the family Caryophyllaceae, is a genus of long-known, cultivated, ornamental, and medicinal plants (Antkowiak and Dyba, 2004). Their underground parts, containing saponins (4%-25%), were used for washing wool and silk, giving halva its fragility, and as fire extinguisher agents, while in medicine they were believed to have expectorant, laxative, and emetic properties (Henry et al, 1991;Yao et al, 2010;Korkmaz and Özçelik, 2011;Korkmaz and Dogan, 2015). Recently, a cytotoxic effect of gypsogenin 3-O-glucuronide derivatives towards mammalian macrophage cell lines was confirmed, and Gypsophila saponins are being considered as vaccine adjuvants (Gevrenova et al, 2014).…”